Performance Features:
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16 Transmit and 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 for 8 pools of virtual machine Device Queues ( VMDq) per port
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Support Direct Cache Access ( DCA)
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Support Intel I/O AT 2.0
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TSO interleaving for reduced latency
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UDP TSO
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Minimized device I/O interrupts using MSI and MSI-X
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Offload of TCP / IP / UDP checksum calculation and TCP segmentation
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SCTP receive and transmit checksum offload
Packet interrupt coalescing timers (packet timers) and absolute- delay interrupt timers for both transmit and receive operation
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Fiber Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-SX:
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Independent Fiber Gigabit Ethernet channels support Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-SX
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Small Form Factor (SFF) LC Connectors
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2PortLink synchronization
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Common Key features:
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Host Interface standard support PCI-Express Base Specification Revision 1.1
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High performance, reliability, and low power use in Intel 82576 Dual 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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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 (9.5KB)
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802.x flow control
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PCI-SIG SR IOV (8 VF)
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Multicast/ broadcast Packet replication
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Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet like MIB, and Ethernet MIB (802.3z, Clause 30)
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Supports Vital Product Data (VPD)
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Integrated LinkSec security engines
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Supports IEEE 1588
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LEDs indicators for link/Activity/Speed status
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