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UDP and TCP transmit segmentation offload (TSO). machine

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SCTP receive and transmit checksum offload

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

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EEE (IEEE 802.3az) for reduced power consumption during low link utilization periods

SFP Gigabit Ethernet:

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Gigabit Ethernet Adapters with SFP cage support:

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1000Base-LX Fiber Gigabit Ethernet with 1000Base-LX SFP transceiver

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1000Base-SX Fiber Gigabit Ethernet with 1000Base-SX SFP transceiver

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1000Base-T (1000Mbit/s) Copper Gigabit Ethernet with 1000Base-T SFP transceiver

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Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) Cage for SFP LC connectors

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Optional SGMII mode (future support)

Common Key features:

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Support PCI Express Base Specification 2.1 (5 GTs)

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High performance, reliability, and low power use in Intel i350 Quad 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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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

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Supports Vital Product Data (VPD)

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LEDs indicators for link/Activity status