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Performance Features:

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Supports Intel I/O ® Acceleration Technology v3.0

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Stateless offloads ( header split, RSS)

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Direct Cache access

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UDP, TCP, and IP Checksum offload

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UDP and TCP transmit checksum offload

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SCTP receive and transmit checksum offload

Virtualization Ready:

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8 Transmit and Receive queues per port

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Support up to 8 VMs per port ( 1 queue allocated to each VM)

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

Common Key features:

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PCI Express ExpressModule Electromechanical Specification Revision 1.0

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PCI Express Base Specification 2.0 (5 GTs)

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High performance, reliability, and low power use in Intel 82580 Quad integrated MAC + PHY and SERDES chip Controllers

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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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Multicast/ broadcast Packet replication on receive

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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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Supports End to End CRC (ECRC)

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Supports Latency Tolerance Reporting (LTR)

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LEDs indicators for link/Activity status

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Hot Plug not supported. Can be supported by assembly change