Features
· PCI Express Gen3 x8· Low latency user-space I/O· Full TCP and UDP offload· Full iSCSI, FCoE offload· Full iWARP RDMA offload· OVS Offload with OpenFlow support· DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit)· EVB, Flex10, VNTag· PCI-SIG SR-IOV· Integrated media streaming offload· NAT offload· IEEE 1588v2 Precision Time Protocol
Applications
Datacenter Networking· Scale out servers and NAS systems · Consolidate LAN, SAN and cluster networks · Enhanced network and server security Cloud Computing· Virtualization features to maximize cloud scaling and utilization · Runs InfiniBand, FibreChannel applications unmodified over Ethernet · Cloud-ready functional and management features · Secure Sockets offload · QoS and Traffic Management Networked Storage · Enable high performance NAS systems and Ethernet-based SANs · Develop shared-storage systems providing both file and block level services · Build high performance storage backend fabrics using Ethernet · Encrypt all communication and data at rest High Performance Computing · Very low latency Ethernet · High performance RDMA support · Increase cluster fabric bandwidth