PCI Express 40G Fiber Optical Single Port Server Adapter

Product Overview:

Extending Intel Virtualization Technology Beyond Server Virtualization to the network with hardware optimizations and 

offloads  for the Rapid Provisioning of Networks in an Agile Data Center.

Key Features :

• Single-port 40GbE adapters

• Supports 1x40GbE configurations

• PCI Express* (PCIe*) 3.0, x8

• Exceptional low power adapters

• Network Virtualization offloads including VXLAN, NVGRE, and Geneve 1

• Intel® Ethernet Flow Director (Intel® Ethernet FD ) for hardware-based application traffic steering

• 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 with Intel® Xeon® processor-based  servers

• I/O virtualization innovations for maximum performance in a virtualized server 

• Unified networking providing a single wire support for LAN and storage: NAS 

Leading 40 GbE Performance

• Small Packet Performance: Maintains wire-rate throughput on smaller payload sizes

• Bulk Transfer Performance: Delivers line-rate performance with low CPU usage for large   application buffers

• Virtualized Performance:Alleviates hypervisor I/O bottlenecks by providing flow separation for Virtual Machines (VMs)

• Network Virtualization:Network virtualization overlay offloads including VXLAN, NVGRE,and Geneve

• Storage Performance:Enables competitive performance with native 

OS drivers and intelligent offload for NAS (NFS, SMB), and SAN (iSCSI)

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