PCI-E intel X520 10GbE Single- RJ45 Server NICs

Intel^® 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter

Transforming the data center through a reliable and unified 10GbE network

Overview

       Powered by Intel's third-generation 10 GbE network controller, the Intel® Ethernet 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller, 

the X520 adapter family addresses the demanding needs of the next-generation data center by providing unmatched features 

for virtualization, flexibility for LAN and SAN networking, and proven, reliable performance.Customers require flexible and scalable I/O solutions to meet the rigorous requirements of running mission-critical applications in virtualized and unified storage environments. 

Two versions are available

        • 82599ES — Dual-port serial 10 GbE backplane interface for blade implementations 

           (includes the 82599EB SKU functionality plus KR and SFI interfaces).

        • 82599EN — Single-port serial 10 GbE SFI interface for blade implementations.

Specification

        • Complies with the 1000BASE-BX specification

        • Complies with the IEEE 802.3x 100BASE-TX specification

        • Support for jumbo frames of up to 15.5 KB

        • CX4 per 802.3ak

        • Flow control support: send/receive pause frames and receive

Networking

        • Complies with the 10 Gb/s and 1 Gb/s Ethernet/802.3ap (KX/KX4/KR) specification

        • Complies with the 10 Gb/s Ethernet/802.3ae (XAUI)

MAC FUNCTIONS

        • Descriptor ring management hardware for transmit and receive

        • ACPI register set and power down functionality supporting D0 and D3 states

        • A mechanism for delaying/reducing transmit interrupts

        • Software-controlled global reset bit (resets everything except the configuration registers)

        • Eight Software-Definable Pins (SDP) per port

        • Four of the SDP pins can be configured as general-purpose interrupts

        • Wake up

        • Ipv6 wake-up filters

        • Configurable flexible filter (through EEPROM)

        • LAN function disable capability

        • Programmable memory transmit buffers (160 KB/port)

        • Default configuration by EEPROM for all LEDs for pre-driver functionality

        • Support for SR-IOV

FIFO thresholds

        • Statistics for management and RMON

        • 802.1q VLAN support

        • TCP segmentation offload: up to 256 KB

        • IPv6 support for IP/TCP and IP/UDP receive checksum offload

        • Fragmented UDP checksum offload for packet reassembly

        • Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI)

        • Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI-X)

        • Interrupt throttling control to limit maximum interrupt rate and improve CPU usage

        • Receive packet split header

        • Multiple receive queues (Flow Director) 16 x 8 and 32 x 4

        • 128 transmit queues

        • Receive header replication

        • Dynamic interrupt moderation

        • DCA support

        • TCP timer interrupts

        • Support for 64 virtual machines per port (64 VMs x 2 queues)

        • Support for Data Center Bridging (DCB), (802.1Qaz, 802.1Qbb, 802.1p)