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Quad Port Copper Gigabit Ethernet Express Module Server Adapter

Product Description

Silicom’s Quad Port Copper Gigabit Ethernet ExpressModule server adapter is a PCI-Express X8 Four Copper Gigabit Ethernet

network interface card that can fit into a 3.5” HD form factor. The Silicom Quad Port Copper ExpressModule is the front I/O module

in Silicom Server to Network Appliance Converter (SETAC) architecture.

Silicom’s Quad Port Copper Gigabit Ethernet ExpressModule server adapters are based on Intel i350 Ethernet controller with quad

fully integrated Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) and PHY. In addition to managing MAC and PHY Ethernet layer

functions, the controller manages PCI Express packet traffic across its transaction, link, and physical/logical layers.

Silicom’s Quad Port Copper Gigabit Ethernet ExpressModule server adapters are the ideal solution for implementing multiple

network segments, mission-critical high-powered networking applications and environments within high performance servers.

Key Features

Performance Features:

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8 Transmit and 8 Receive queues per port.

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Up to 8 queues of Receive Side Scaling (RSS) minimize CPU utilization across multiple processor systems.

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Support PCI-SIG Single-Root I/O virtualization Rev 1.1.

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Support for up to 8 virtual function ( VFs)

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Partial replication of PCI Configuration space

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

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Support Direct Cache Access (DCA).

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Support Intel I/O Acceleration Technology v3.0.

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TSO interleaving for reduced latency

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

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UDP, TCP and IP checksum offload

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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.