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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 82580EB 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

Copper Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-T :

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Independently copper Gigabit Ethernet channels support four Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-T), Fast Ethernet (100Base-Tx) and

Ethernet (10Base-T).

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Triple speed 1000Mbps (1000Base-T), 100 Mbps (100Base-Tx) and 10 Mbps (100Base-T) operation.

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Nway auto negotiation automatic sensing and switching between 1Gbps full duplex and 100 / 10 Mbps operations Simplex or

Full Duplex.

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RJ-45 female connectors.

Performance Features:

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8 Transmit and 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 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