Industry-leading, energy-efficient design for
10/40GbE performance and multi-core processors.
Overview
The Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710 offers both Quad-port 10GbE, and is backwards compatible to 10GbE. The XL710 is part of the Intel® Ethernet 700 Series, 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.
Feature
• Supports 2 x 10GbE configurations
• PCI Express* (PCIe) X8 v3.0
• Exceptional low-power controllers
• Network Virtualization offloads including VXLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE, MPLS, and VXLAN-GPE with NetworkService 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
1 x SFP+ PCIe 10GbE Network card XL710
1 x User's Manual
1 x CD Driver
1 x Low profile bracket