Intel 4-port Ethernet Adapter
32.4"L x 5.3"W x 2.7"H
four lane (x4) PCI Express (PCIe) high performing
4x RJ45, PCIe Gen 2.0 compliant adapter
Communication processor Intel 82580
Data rate 10/100/1000 Mb/s, Half and full-duplex
Data path Four lane (x4) PCI Express compatible with x1, x4, x8, and x16 PCI Express slots
On-board memory 56KB
Bus type PCI Express v2.0 (Gen 2) x8 lane operation
Bus speed 10 Gb/s uni-directional; 20 Gb/s bi-directional (x4 PCIe, encoded rate)
Interrupt levels Automatically configured Ports
Four gigabit ports Up to 1000 Mb/s Ethernet transfer rate per port (4000 Mb/s combined)
supports TCP checksum and segmentation, Large Send and Receive offload
IEEE 1588 This protocol helps time-stamping and synchronization of time sensitive applications
Message Signal Interrupt Extension (MSI-X), IEEE 1588, Receive Side Scaling (RSS), VLAN tagging,
9.5KB jumbo frames and IPv6.
support for virtualization feature called Virtual Machine Data queue (VMDq), which
improves I/O performance by reducing I/O overhead in a virtualized environment.
802.1Q VLANs with 802.1p
QoS Tagging
IEEE 802.1Q virtual local area network (VLAN) protocol allows each physical port to be
separated into multiple virtual NICs for added network segmentation and enhanced security and
performance. VLANs increase security by isolating traffic between users. Limiting the broadcast traffic to
within the same VLAN domain also improves performance. IEEE quality of service (QoS) 802.1p tagging
allows the adapter to mark or tag frames with a priority level across a QoS-aware network for improved
flow