Lightning Wire Labs

Lightning Wire Labs is the company behind the flagship series of IPFire appliances. They are developing reference hardware that has been optimised to work perfectly together with IPFire.

Rack-mount appliances

For deployments in larger companies and authorities, or in schools with hundreds of students accessing the Internet, there are rack-mountable appliances available that get the maximum out of IPFire and being power-efficient at the same time.

SOHO/IoT appliances

For small businesses, home offices or remote offices, a series of smaller appliances is available that bring the full set of features of IPFire in a small form-factor. They are also perfect for IoT applications.

Cloud Appliances

Virtual appliances are also available on Amazon Web Services.

Comparison Chart

	IPFire Enterprise Appliance	IPFire Business Appliance	IPFire Office Appliance
Revision	Rev 1.0	Rev 1.0	Rev 1.0
System
Processor Series	Intel Xeon-D Series	Intel Atom Server Series	Intel Atom Server Series
Memory	16 GB	8 GB	4 GB
Networking
Ethernet Adapters	2x 10G, 2x 1G	4x 1G	4x 1G
Throughput¹	Full 10G	Full 1G	Full 1G
Cryptography
AES 256 GCM (per CPU)	~2.4 GByte/s	~740 MByte/s	~740 MByte/s
AES 256 CBC	~422 MByte/s	~400 MByte/s	~400 MByte/s
HWRNG	Intel RDRAND & RDSEED
Power Consumption
Typical Load	~34 W	~25 W	???
Full CPU Load	~77 W	~32 W	???

FAQ

Are any of the appliances vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre/etc?

Yes, some of the appliances are affected. There is an extra page that lists which appliances is affected by which vulnerability and how they are mitigated.