Wednesday, September 30, 2009

QNAP NMP-1000 Brings Networked Video, Audio, Digital Pictures And Other Digital Content Into The Living Room



New Home Network Appliance Unique Blending of Set-top Box Player and Networked Storage Capable of Delivering Cinema Quality Video and Audio to the Home Theater



The new NMP-1000 incorporates an internal hard disk drive that easily catalogs digital pictures, videos, music, and other content from computers on the home network and can effortlessly play them back in the home theater with the included remote control.



The new NMP-1000 connects to the home network via wired Ethernet (wireless adapter ready) and to an HDTV via HDMI or Component interfaces, or Composite & S-Video interfaces for standard-def TVs. The NMP-1000 is capable of playing back smooth Full HD 1080p video and crystal clear audio; turning digital picture slide shows, home videos, purchased content, and even shared iTunes® libraries into a viewing/listening experience worthy of the living room. Because the NMP-1000 is Internet connected via the home network, you can even browse digital pictures & albums from Flickr™ or videos from YouTube™. The "10-foot" user interface makes it a snap to select content for viewing with the included remote control, and the NMP-1000 supports a very wide range of formats for playing back digital pictures, videos, movies, and music. Because the NMP-1000 incorporates technologies found in its popular Turbo NAS servers, it can also be used to automatically backup computers on the network and also for easy file storage and sharing. The NMP-1000 is equally at home on Windows®, Macintosh®, Linux, and even UNIX-based home networks.



The NMP-1000 is fully DLNA™ compliant and features advanced technology including HDMI 1.3 support, powerful Sigma Designs® video/audio hardware decoders, and a host of advanced networking support hidden under the hood. Set-up and the overall user experience of the NMP-1000 are exceptionally easy and enjoyable.



Sunday, September 6, 2009


Extend Outdoor / Indoor Wireless Coverage


The PLANET ANT-FP9 is the 2.4GHz 9dBi flat panel directional Antenna equipped with an N-Type Female connector. The antenna increases wireless signal coverage and improves signal strength and quality for current wireless environment. With mini-sized outlook and effectively enhancing the performance and coverage range of 802.11b/g equipments, the ANT-FP9 is quite suitable for outdoor WLAN application and indoor long distance wireless application such as point to point connection in the warehouse.

Features


For 802.11b/g device at Frequency: 2400~2500 MHz
Mini Size 9dBi antenna for outdoor / indoor wireless application
Intergrated N-Type female connector
Extended point to point wireless coverage

Application


Featuring mini-sized outlook, extending wireless signal coverage and improving signal strength and quality for existing wireless environment, the PLANET ANT-FP9 2.4GHz 9dBi flat panel directional Antenna is quite suitable for outdoor WLAN application and indoor long distance wireless application.



QNAP Enhances TS-809 Pro Turbo NAS Server Performance With Migration to Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz CPU





QNAP announced a hardware specification change to the popular 8-bay TS-809 Pro Turbo NAS server. QNAP has adopted the Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz CPU which will significantly improve the performance of the TS-809 Pro for data intensive corporate and entry-level enterprise and data center customers.
AvailabilityEffective immediately, all TS-809 Pro shipments will include the new Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz CPU.




About TS-809 Pro Turbo NASQNAP TS-809 Pro Turbo NAS is the world's first 8-bay network attached storage server which incorporates vertically mounted hot-swappable SATA hard drives, with up to 16TB storage capacity, RAID 0/1/5/6/5+spare, Online RAID Capacity Expansion, Online RAID Level Migration, and other advanced features such as built-in iSCSI target with Thin Provisioning, AES 256-bit volume-based encryption, automatic policy-based IP blocking, volume status report, syslog server, schedule on and off, Wake on LAN, instant SMS alert, and 4 IP cameras for network surveillance etc.
For more information about the TS-809 Pro Turbo NAS, please visit
http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=109
Total Security Protection for SMB Network Deployment

The innovation of the Internet has created a tremendous worldwide opportunities for e-business and information sharing, however, it also brings network security problems. The request of security becomes the primary concern for the enterprises. To fulfill the demand, PLANET introduces the UTM Content Security Gateway CS-2000, a special designed security gateway to support the enterprises build up the network security protection. The CS-2000 adopts Heuristics Analysis to filter spam and virus mails, and its auto-training system can increase the identify rate of spam. The built-in 80GB Hard Disk can store the spam mail in quarantine. The Anti-virus application has dual virus scan engines - Clam and Sophos to detect viruses, worms and other threats from E-mails and Internet.

Besides filtering spam and virus mail, the CS-2000 features the IDP and firewall functions to defense hackers and blaster attacks from Internet or Intranet. The complete functions in one device provide enterprises security solutions and the secure environment better than ever. In addition, it provides higher performance with all Gigabit Ethernet interfaces offering faster speeds for your network applications.

Key Features

All Gigabit Interface
Provides Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam for Email filtering
Built-in double Virus scan engines
SSL VPN, IPSec VPN, and PPTP Server / Client support
Provides WAN port load balance and fail-over features
Content Filtering: URL, Scripts, IM, P2P, and Download / Upload Blocking
IDP: Intrusion Detection and Prevention

Applications

UTM Content Security Gateway

PLANET UTM Content Security Gateway, CS-2000, is a specially designed security gateway with virus and spam filtering features. As the gatekeeper of corporate security network, CS-2000 prevents corporate intranet from being infected by virus and its network resource occupied by useless spam mails. Furthermore, IDP, User Authentication and Content Filter features of the security gateway offer the corporate intranet highly secure protection. The CS-2000 also provides the IPSec, SSL VPN, and PPTP VPN solutions for data to be securely delivered via VPN tunnel.