10 GbE NIC Adapters — QLOGIC

DELIVERING HIGH PERFORMANCE AND COST EFFECTIVE
SOLUTIONS WITH 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET

High Performance, Cost Effective 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. Qlogic's Intelligent NIC® provides network I/O processing capabilities at 10 Gigabit speeds. The key technology breakthrough and genesis of Qlogic is the Protocol Processing Engine, a purpose-built processor with a patented architecture that provides superior performance for I/O processing tasks, while being fully programmable. This engine allows Qlogic Intelligent NICs to achieve unprecedented levels of performance. It does so in a manner that permits the products to continue to evolve, adapt and extend to meet the ever-changing IT requirements.

The combined best-of-breed 10 GbE technology using Force10 Networks low latency switches and Qlogic Intelligent NICs deliver high throughput and low latency, facilitating mainstream data center adoption of 10 GbE.

The standards-based nature of Ethernet and TCP/IP enables 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.

Key Force10 S2410 Features

Resilient and scalable high density, low latency 10 GbE switch for high performance Ethernet environments.

• 24 line-rate 10 GbE ports in a 1-RU form factor
  – S2410CP: 20 CX4 ports plus four 10 GbE pluggable XFP interfaces
  – S2410P: 24 XFP interfaces
• 300 nanosecond switching latency under full load
• 64 byte to 10,240 byte frames
• Switching fabric capacity of 480 Gbps and forwarding capacity of 360 Mpps

Key Qlogic Intelligent NIC Features

• Trusted technology supplier to Tier 1 server OEMs (HP, IBM, Dell and others)
• Multi-protocol support: TCP/IP, iSCSI, RDMA
• Industry-first dual-ported 10 GbE connectivity for blades
• First and only Linux Sockets Acceleration™ (LSA) technology
• Only 10 GbE NIC to support Microsoft TCP Chimney Offload
• Breakthrough I/O virtualization technology
• Broad O/S support: Microsoft, RedHat, SuSE, and VMware

 

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