10 GbE NIC Adapters — Intel NetEffect

High Performance, Low Latency Ethernet Solutions for Today’s Data Centers

The transition to 10 GbE is underway in the data center, and the ubiquity and reliability of Ethernet make it the most desirable solution for delivering 10 GbE performance. Intel NetEffect’s 10 GbE iWARP Ethernet Channel Adapters (ECA) are the first to fully implement the iWARP Ethernet standards which eliminate 100% of the system overhead due to networking, delivering high bandwidth, high throughput and low latency Ethernet solutions for the rigorous demands of networking, storage, and clustering applications.

The combined best-of-breed 10 GbE technology using Force10 Networks low latency switches and Intel NetEffect 10 GbE iWARP Ethernet adapters delivers a new breakthrough in high throughput and low latency, facilitating mainstream data center adoption of 10 GbE.

The standards-based nature of Ethernet and TCP/IP enable IT staff to leverage existing skills and tools to reduce the total cost of ownership and complexity of data center operations – common spares, common software, common training for networking, storage, and clustering. Data center managers can now fully realize 10 Gbps data throughput with extremely low overhead while remaining completely compatible with existing Ethernet infrastructures.

The test results in this document show MPI latency and throughput performance between Force10 Networks’ S-Series S2410 low latency data center switch and Intel NetEffects’s NE010 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCI-X adapters.

 

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