Intel NetEffect NE020 - Network Adapter - PCIe X8 Low Profile - 10 GigE - 10GBase-X - E10G81GP

• Meeting the needs of all data center networks
  With industry-leading latencies, wire-saturating bandwidths, and the industry's highest CPU productivity, NE020 solutions deliver predictable, sustained performance in the dense multiple-connection environments common in multi-core, multi-processor configurations, high performance computing, and virtualized server implementations.
• Lower power, more processing per square foot
  NE020 adapters consume less than seven watts, half the power required by competitive 10 GB products. Conserved watts can be put to use increasing rack density (processing per square foot) or lowering energy costs.
• Simplified deployment and infrastructure
  Through a unique single adapter/single firmware design, only one NE020 adapter is needed to support simultaneous connectivity to scale-out (clustering), data and storage networks. This eliminates the need to spare three dissimilar interfaces and the need for fixed application/ resource provisioning to specific servers/blades.
• Fully accelerated performance by design
  NE020 adapters leverage an elegant Virtual Pipeline Architecture to implement all the IETF-approved iWARP extensions to TCP/IP. Every adapter integrates a TCP/IP offload engine (TOE), RDMA over Ethernet, and user level direct access features that work together to improve both performance and overall power efficiency.
• The economies of Ethernet ubiquity
  By giving data centers a way to standardize on Ethernet, NE020 adapters eliminate the need to deploy multiple, disparate interconnect technologies and maintain separate management tools and personnel to support them. Leveraging existing Ethernet economies, expertise and tools reduces operational and capital equipment costs.

Data center networks are being pushed to their limits. Applications are becoming more complex; multi-processor server architectures are adding connections; cluster and grid configurations are becoming more prevalent; virtualized server environments are increasing the already heavy loads on networking infrastructures. Helping data centers overcome their most demanding networking challenges, the NetEffect NE020 family of 10 GB accelerated Ethernet PCI Express (PCIe) adapters and blade adapters is setting new standards in networking performance, power efficiency, and operational simplicity.