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Quad Port SFP Gigabit Ethernet Express Module Server Adapter

Product Description

Silicom’s Quad Port Copper Gigabit Ethernet ExpressModule server

adapter is a PCI-Express X4 SFP Gigabit Ethernet network interface

card that can fit into a 3.5” HD form factor.

The Silicom Quad Port SFP 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 i350 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 SFP 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

Performance Features:

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8 Transmit and 8 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 PCI-SIG Single-Root I/O virtualization Rev 1.1.

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Support for up to 8 virtual function ( VFs)

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Partial replication of PCI Configuration space

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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