X722 Dual and Quad–port 10GbE network adapters 

supporting highly scalable iWARP RDMA for high-throughput, low-latency, and low-CPU data communication

▪ iWARP RDMA

▪ PCI Express (PCIe) v3.0, x8

▪ Network Virtualization offloads: VxLAN, GENEVE, and NVGRE

▪ Intel Ethernet Flow Director for hardware based application traffic steering

▪ Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) optimized for efficient packet processing

▪ Excellent small packet performance for network appliances and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)

▪ Intelligent offloads to enable high performance on servers with Intel Xeon Processors

▪ I/O virtualization innovations for maximum performance in a virtualized server

Specification

• iWARP RDMA

• PCI-Express host interface specification v3.0 with 8GT/s Bus width 

• PCI-Express interface: x8

• Support 10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR and SFP+ Direct Attach copper physical media

• 2 x 10G SFP+ supported 

• Support for most network operating systems

• Time SYNC (IEEE1588, 802.1as) supported

• Intel Ethernet Flow director

• Multiple Queues:1536 TX and RX queues per device

• Supports Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities

• Next-generation VMDQ up to 256 maximum VMDQ VMs supported

• PCI-SIG SR-IOV implementation 128 per device

• Virtual machine load balancing 

• Advanced packet filtering 

• VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags