Standards

• PCI Express base spec
  2.0, PCI Bus Power Management Interface, rev.
  1.2, Advanced Error Reporting (AER)
• IEEE 802.3ae (10Gb/s Ethernet)
• IEEE 802.1q (VLAN)
• IEEE 802.3ad (Link Aggregation)
• IEEE 802.3x (Flow Control)
• IEEE 802.1p (QoS/CoS)
• IEEE 802.1ab (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)
• PHP hot plug-hot swap

Architecture

• Dual-channel, 10Gb/s Ethernet link speed
• PCIe Express
  2.0 (x8, 5GT/s), MSI-X support
• Integrated data buffer and code space memory

Ethernet Features

• IPv4/IPv6 TCP, UDP checksum offload; Large Send Offload (LSO); Large Receive Offload; Receive Side Scaling (RSS); IPV4 TCP Chimney Offload
• VLAN insertion and extraction
• Jumbo frames up to 8000 Bytes
• Preboot eXecutive Environment (PXE)
  2.0 network boot support
• Interrupt coalescing
• Load balancing and failover support including adapter fault tolerance (AFT), switch fault tolerance (SFT), adaptive load balancing (ALB), teaming support and IEEE 802.3ad

Comprehensive OS Support

• Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
• Novell SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
• VMware ESX
• VMware vSphere

Hardware Environments

• x86, x64 processor family

Interconnect

• Copper
  • SFP+ Direct Attached Twin-Ax Copper interface
  • Standards compliant passive and active copper cables supported up to 5m
• Optical
  • Optics: 10GBASE-SR short wave lasers with LC type connector

Physical Dimensions

• Short, low-profile form factor card
• 167.64mm x 68.91mm (6.60” x
  2.71”)
• Standard bracket (low profile available)

Environmental Requirements

• Operating temperature: 0° to 55° C (32° to 131° F)
• Storage temperature: -40° to 70° C (-40° to 158° F)
• Relative humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing

Agency Approvals

• UL recognized to UL 60950-1
• CUR recognized to CSA22.2, No. 60950-1-07
• Bauart-certified to EN60950-1
• FCC Rules, Part 15, Class A
• ICES-003, Class A
• EMC Directive 2004/108/EEC (CE Mark)
  • EN55022, Class A
  • EN55024
• Australian EMC Framework (C-Tick Mark)
  • AS/NZS CISPR22, Class A
• VCCI (Japan), Class A
• KCC (Korea), Class A
• BSMI (Taiwan), Class A
• EU RoHS Compliant (Directive 2002/95/EC)
• China RoHS Compliant