Dual and quad-port energy-efficient adapters for NBASE-T and 10GBASE-T networks

▪ PCI Express (PCIe) v3.0, x8

▪ Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) / IEEE 802.3az enabled

▪ Backward compatible with multi-speed support for 5/2.5/1GbE, 10GBASE-T, and 100BASE-TX

▪ Network Virtualization offloads including VxLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE, MPLS, and VxLAN-GPE with Network Service Headers (NSH)

▪ Intel® Ethernet Flow Director for hardware-based application traffic steering

▪ Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) enables increased packet processing efficiency for NFV and Cloud deployments

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

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

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

Specification

• PCI-Express host interface specification v3.0 with 8GT/s Bus width and backward compliant with 2.0 and 1.x

• PCI-Express interface: x8 

• Complies with Dual 10GbE RJ45 port 

• Integrate BASE-T ports capable of operating at 100/1G/2.5G/5G/10GBASE-T

• Full-duplex operation at all supported speeds

• Maximize link capacity when operating at 10Gb/s link with packets larger than 128 bytes at full duplex traffic

• PCI-SIG SR-IOV implementation 128 per device

• Supports Receive-side scaling (RSS)

• Supports Jumbo Frames up to 9K

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

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

• Virtual machine load balancing 

• Advanced packet filtering 

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