Intel Dual 10G (10Gigabit /10Gbps/10,000Mbps) NIC Desktop/Server PCIe LAN Card Low Profile
Ethernet Converged Network Adapter
-PCIe x8 Lane Interface
-Low Profile Bracket Included
-Regular Profile Bracket Included
- Standard CAT-6a cabling with RJ45 connectors
Feature:
Intel X540 10G Twisted Pair Ethernet Controller: High performance and reliability; low power
Low cost, low power, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) performance for the entire data center
Standard CAT-6a cabling with RJ45 connectors
Backward compatibility with existing 1000Base-T networks simplifies the transition to 10GbE
Flexible I/O virtualization for port partitioning and quality of service (QoS) of up to 64 virtual ports
Unified networking delivering LAN, iSCSI, and FCoE in one low cost CNA
Industry first dual-port 10GBase-T adapter with single-chip solution with integrated MAC + PHY
Reliable and proven 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology from Intel corporation
- Specifications:
- * Connectors: 2x RJ45 Copper
- * Data Rate: 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps (per port)
- * Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.1 (5 GT/s)
- * Bus Width: PCI-Express x8, Operable in x8 and x16 Slots
- * Bus Speed (x8, Encoded Rate): 20 Gbps uni-directional; 40 Gbps bi-directional
- * Interrupt Levels: INTA, MSI, MSI-X
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- Features:
- * Low-profile
- * Load balancing on multiple CPUs
- * Remote boot iSCSI and FCoE
- * Support for most network operating systems (NOS)
- * Lead-free technology
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- I/O Features for Multi-Core Processor Servers:
- * MSI-X support
- * Low Latency
- * Header splits and replication in receive
- * Multiple queues
- * Tx/Rx IP, SCTP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloading (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities
- * Tx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4, IPv6)
- * IPsec Offload
- * Compatible with x8 and x16 standard and low-profile PCI Express slots
- * Receive and Transmit Side Scaling for Windows and Scalable I/O for Linux (IPv4, IPv6, TCP/UDP)
- * RJ45 connections over CAT-6a cabling
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- Virtualization Features:
- * Virtual Machine Device queues (VMDq)
- * Next-Generation VMDq (64 queues per port)
- * PCI-SIG SR-IOV Implementation (64 virtual functions per port)
- * IPv6 Offloading
- * Advanced packet filtering
- * VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags
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- Network Management:
- * Wired for Management (WfM) baseline v2.0 enabled for servers
- * DMI 2.0 support, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and SNMP
- * Remote Installation Services (RIS)
- * PXE 2.0 enabled through boot Read-Only Memory (ROM)
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- Network Operating Systems (NOS) Software Support:
- * Windows 7 (IA32 and X64)
- * Windows Server 2008/ 2008 Core/ 2008 R2/ 2008 R2 Core (x64 and IPF)
- * Linux SLES 11 SP1
- * Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- * Microsoft Vista
- * SUSE SLES 10 or later, Professional 9.2 or later
- * Microsoft Windows Virtual Server 2005
- * Red Hat Enterprise 4 or later
- * FreeBSD 5.x or later support
- * VMware ESX 4.0/4.1, ESXi 5.0 support
- * Fedora
- * EFI 1.1
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- Advanced Software Features:
- * Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT) - Teaming support
- * Switch Fault Tolerance (SFT)
- * Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB)
- * Virtual Machine Load Balancing (VMLB)
- * IEEE 802.3ad (link aggregation control protocol)
- * PCIe Hot Plug/Active Peripheral
- * Component Interconnect (PCI)
- * IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
- * IEEE 802.3 2005 flow control support
- * Tx/Rx IP, TCP, & UDP checksum offloading (IPv4, IPv6) capabilities Transmission control protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Internet Protocol (IP)
- * IEEE 802.1p
- * TCP segmentation/large send offload
- * MSI -X - Multiple Independent Queues
- * Interrupt moderation
- * IPv6 offloading
Package includes :
Intel OEM 10G (10 Gigabit) Network card x 1 with regular & short low profile brackets.
Drivers - Available at Intel Website as a download