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Diverse applications operate in diverse locations at the edge, so any hardware you deploy there must be able to withstand extreme heat and cold while fitting into limited spaces. New to the Dell EMC PowerEdge XR line, which previously featured only the Dell EMC PowerEdge XR2 rugged server, PowerEdge XR11 and PowerEdge XR12 rugged servers are purpose-built to deliver high performance and low latency in suboptimal environmental conditions. Both models feature 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and are available with up to 8 DIMMs, PCI Express 4.0 enabled expansion slots, choice of network interface technologies, and up to 90 TB of storage. One example test shows the performance possibilities that the Dell EMC PowerEdge XR12 enabled by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors offers: the solution delivered 2x the massive MIMO throughput for a 5G vRAN deployment compared to the previous generation.1
Available in highly configurable 1U and 2U form factors, these PowerEdge XR servers are ideal to support demanding applications at the edge in the Telco, retail, manufacturing, and military and marine spaces, handling workloads such as CDN, 5G, analytics, and inventory control.
1 Intel, “3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors – Performance Index [91]”, https://edc.intel.com/content/ www/us/en/products/performance/benchmarks/3rd-generation-intel-xeon-scalable-processors/