Performance Features:

16 Transmit and Receive queues per port

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

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

Support Direct Cache Access ( DCA)

Support Intel I/O AT 2.0

TSO interleaving for reduced latency

UDP TSO

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

Offload of TCP / IP / UDP checksum calculation and TCP segmentation

SCTP receive and transmit checksum offload

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

Copper Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-T: Independently copper Gigabit Ethernet channels support Single Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-T), Fast Ethernet (100Base-Tx) and Ethernet (10Base-T)

Triple speed 1000Mbps (1000Base-T), 100 Mbps (100Base-Tx) and 10 Mbps (100Base-T) operation

N-way auto negotiation automatic sensing and switching between 1Gbps full duplex and 100 / 10 Mbps operations Simplex or Full Duplex

RJ-45 female connectors

Common Key Features: Host Interface standard support PCI-Express Base Specification Revision 1.1.

High performance, reliability, and low power use in Intel 82576 Dual integrated MAC + PHY and SERDES chip Controllers

Ultra deep packet buffer per channel lowers CPU utilization

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



Server class reliability, availability and performance features:

Link Aggregation and Load Balancing: Switch dependent: 802.3ad (LACP), Generic Trunking ( GEC / FEC)

Switch and NIC Independent

Failover Priority queuing – 802.1p layer 2 priority encoding

Virtual LANs –802.1q VLAN tagging

Jumbo Frame (9.5KB)

802.x flow control

PCI-SIG SR IOV (8 VF)

Multi-cast/ broadcast Packet replication

Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet like MIB, and Ethernet MIB (802.3z, Clause 30)

Supports Vital Product Data (VPD)

Integrated LinkSec security engines

Supports IEEE 1588

LEDs indicators for link/Activity/Speed status

Copper Gigabit Ethernet Technical Specifications - (1000Base-T) Adapters: IEEE Standard / Network topology: Gigabit Ethernet, 1000Base-T