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Copper Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-T:

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Independently copper Gigabit Ethernet channels support Single 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

Common Key features:

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Host Interface standard support PCI Express ExpressModule 1.0

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High performance, reliability, and low power use in Intel 82576 Dual integrated MAC + PHY and SERDES chip Controllers

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Ultra deep, packet buffer per channel lowers CPU utilization

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Hardware acceleration that can offload tasks from the host processor. The Controllers can offload TCP/UDP/IP checksum

calculations and TCP segmentation

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Server class reliability, availability and performance features

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Link Aggregation and Load Balancing

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Switch dependent: 802.3ad (LACP), Generic Trunking ( GEC / FEC)

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Switch and NIC Independent

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Failover

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Priority queuing

– 802.1p layer 2 priority encoding

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Virtual LANs

–802.1q VLAN tagging

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Jumbo Frame (16KB)

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802.x flow control

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PCI-SIG SR IOV (8 VF)

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Multicast/ broadcast Packet replication

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Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet like MIB, and Ethernet MIB (802.3z, Clause 30)

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Supports Vital Product Data (VPD)

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Integrated LinkSec security engines

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Supports IEEE 1588

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LEDs indicators for link/Activity status