Flexible and Scalable 10/25GbE Network Adapter 

with Hardware Optimizations and Intelligent Offloads for Cloud and Network Virtualization Deployment

▪ PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0, x8

▪ IEEE 802.3by and 25GEthernet.org specification compliance

▪ 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)

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

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

▪ Adaptive link establishment enables increased interoperability with other 25GbE capable switches and host controllers

The Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 delivers excellent performance for 25GbE connectivity that is backwards compatible to 1/10GbE, making migration to higher speeds easier. XXV710 adapters are the foundation for server connectivity, providing broad interoperability, 

critical performance optimizations, and increased agility for Communications, Cloud, and Enterprise IT network solutions.

• Interoperability 

- Multiple speeds and media types for broad compatibility backed by extensive testing and validation.

• Optimization 

- Intelligent offloads and accelerators to unlock network performance in servers with Intel^® Xeon^® processors.

• Agility 

- Both Kernel and Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) drivers for scalable packet processing. 

Specification

• PCI-Express host interface specification v3.0 x8 and higher

• Supports the PCI Bus Power Management specification and section 5 of the PCI Express Base Specification

• PCI-Express lanes: x8 

• Dual-port 25/10GbE adapters

• Meets the IEEE802.3by and 25Gthernet.org standard

• Adaptive link supports interworking with other 25GbE switches and host controllers

• Network Virtualization offloads including VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE and Network Service Headers.

• Intel Ethernet Flow director for hardware based application traffic steering.

• Intelligent offloads to enable high performance with Intel Xeon processor-based servers

• Packet checksum offloads: Calculates IP,UDP, TCP, and Stream transmission Protocol checksums for insertion into transmitted packets and for integrity checking on received packets, 

  Includes support for UDP and TCP checksums in both IPv4 and IPv6 data grams.

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

• Support for optional End-to-End CRC generation and checking

• Supports Maximum number of VMDQ 256 per device

• Supports number of queues 1538 

• IEEE802.3x flow control support

• IEEE802.3Q VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, with stripping and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags.

• Jumbo Frame support 9728 bytes