Common Key features:

- Sing Port 1000SX (850NM)

Support PCI Express Base Specification 2.0 (5 GTs)

- High performance, reliability, and low power use in Intel 82580 Quad 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

- Multicast/ broadcast Packet replication

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

- Supports Vital Product Data (VPD)

- LEDs indicators for link/Activity status