PCI Express RTL8125B 2.5G Network adapter is combines a four-speed IEEE802.3 compatible Media Access controller with a four-speed Ethernet transceiver, it is complies with the IEEE802.3u specification for 10/100Mbps Ethernet, the IEEE802.3ab specification for 1000Mbps Ethernet and IEEE802.3bz specification for 2500Mbps Ethernet. Also it offers high-speed transmission over CAT5e UTP cable OR CAT3 UTP(10Mbps only)cable. It is suitable for multiple market segments and emerging applications, such as desktop, workstation, server, communications platforms, and embedded applications.

General Features

- Integrated 10M BASE-Te and 100/1000M/2.5G BASE-T 802.3 compatible transceivers
- Supports PCI Express 2.1 bus, x1 lane 2.5 / 5.0Gbps bandwidth rate
- Supports 2.5G Lite and 1G data rate modes
- Auto-negotiation with Extended Next Page (XNP) feature
- Support for swap/polarity/skew correction, crossover detection and auto-correction
- Hardware ECC (Error Correction Code) support
- Hardware CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) support
- Transmit/receive on-chip buffer support
- PCI MSI (Message Signal Interrupt) and MSI-X support
- Supports power-down/power-save/PHY disable modes
- Self-loopback diagnostic capability
- Supports ECMA-393 ProxZzzy standard for hibernating hosts
- Supports LTR (Latency Tolerance Reporting)
- Wake-on-LAN and "RealWoW!
- Supports 32 groups of 128-byte wake-up frames with exact pattern matching
- Microsoft WPI (Wake-up Packet Indication) support

IEEE Network Topology

- Compliant with IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab standards

- Supports IEEE 1588v1, IEEE 1588v2, IEEE 802.1AS time synchronization
- Supports IEEE 802.1Qav credit-based shaping algorithm
- Supports IEEE 802.1P Layer 2 priority coding
- Supports IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging
- Supports IEEE 802.1ad dual VLANs
- Support for IEEE 802.3az (Energy Efficient Ethernet)
- Support for IEEE 802.3bz (2.5GBase-T)
- Supports full-duplex flow control (IEEE 802.3x)

Software Uninstallation

- Microsoft NDIS5, NDIS6 checksum offload (IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP) and segmentation task offload (Big Send v1 and Big Send v2) support

- Supports jumbo frames up to 16K bytes

- Quad-core receiver scaling (RSS) support

- Protocol offload support (ARP & NS)