Performance Features:

16 Transmit and 16 Receive queues per port

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Up to 16 queues of Receive Side Scaling (RSS) minimize CPU utilization across multiple processor systems

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Support PCI-SIG Single-Root I/O virtualization Rev 1.1.

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• Support for up to 8 virtual function ( VFs)

• Partial replication of PCI Configuration space

Support for 8 pools (single queue) of virtual machine Device Queues (VMDq) per port

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Support Direct Cache Access (DCA)

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TSO interleaving for reduced latency

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Minimized device I/O interrupts using MSI and MSI-X

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UDP, TCP and IP checksum offload

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UDP and TCP transmit segmentation offload (TSO). machine

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SCTP receive and transmit checksum offload

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Packet interrupt coalescing timers (packet timers) and absolute-delay interrupt timers for both transmit and receive operation

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SFP Gigabit Ethernet:

Gigabit Ethernet Adapters with SFP cage support:

• 1000Base-LX Fiber Gigabit Ethernet with 1000Base-LX SFP transceiver.

• 1000Base-SX Fiber Gigabit Ethernet with 1000Base-SX SFP transceiver

• SFP (1000Mb/s) Copper Gigabit Ethernet with SFP transceiver

• Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) Cage for SFP LC connectors

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Common Key features:

Support PCI Express Base Specification 2.1 (5 GTs)

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High performance, reliability, and low power use in Intel i350 Quad integrated MAC + PHY and SERDES chip Controllers.

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Ultra deep, packet buffer per channel lowers CPU utilization.

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Hardware acceleration that can offload tasks from the host processor. The Controllers can offload TCP/UDP/IP checksum calculations and TCP segmentation.

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Priority queuing – 802.1p layer 2 priority encoding.

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Virtual LANs –802.1q VLAN tagging.

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Jumbo Frame (9.5KB)

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802.x flow control

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Multicast/ broadcast Packet replication

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Supports Vital Product Data (VPD)

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LEDs indicators for link/Activity status