Fiber Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-SX) Adapters:
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Independently Fiber Gigabit Ethernet channel/s support Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-SX
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Small Form Factor (SFF) LC Connectors
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Common Key features:
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Host Interface standard support PCI Express 1.0a.
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High performance, reliability, and low power use in Broadcom 5714 / 5715 / 5704 dual integrated MAC + PHY / SERDES chip controller
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Ultra deep packet buffer per channel lowers CPU utilization
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Dual high speed RISC processor per channel for advanced packet classification
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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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Server class reliability, availability and performance features:
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• Link Aggregation and Load Balancing:
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• Switch dependent: 802.3ad (LACP), Generic Trunking ( GEC / FEC)
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• Switch and NIC Independent
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• Failover
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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 (9KB).
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802.x flow control.
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Boot ROM embedded or optional can be used for Boot ROM applications.
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PCI Power Management Interface (v1.1)
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Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet like MIB, and Ethernet MIB (802.3z, Clause 30)
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LEDs indicators for link/Activity/Speed status
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