Features
· PCI Express Gen3 x8· Low latency user space I/O· 32K concurrent offloaded conn. capacity· Full TCP and UDP offload· Full iSCSI, FCoE offload· Full NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) 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 · HW based firewall and NAT offload · Traffic filtering & management · IEEE 1588v2 Precision Time Protocol · Software Compatible with T4 and T5 · Supports x86, Armv8 (Aarch64), IBM Power and OpenPOWER Servers
Applications
Datacenter Networking· Scale out servers and NAS systems· Consolidate LAN, SAN and cluster networks· Enhanced network and server securityCloud Computing· Virtualization features to maximize cloud scaling and utilization· Runs InfiniBand, Fibre Channel applications unmodified over Ethernet· Cloud-ready functional and management features· QoS and Traffic ManagementNetworked 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 EthernetHigh Performance Computing· Very low latency Ethernet · High performance RDMA support · Increase cluster fabric bandwidth · Deploy Ethernet-only networking for cluster fabric, LAN and SAN
Specifications
Host Interface· PCI-E Gen3 x8 · MSI-X, MSI and support for legacy pin interrupts Virtualization· PCI-SIG SR-IOV · 128 Virtual and 8 Physical functions · 140 port virtual switch · OVS Offload · EVB, VEPA, Flex10, VNTag · 512 MAC addresses · NVGRE, VXLAN and GENEVE support