Neterion Xframe II® 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCI-X 2.0 Server & Storage Adapter Xframe II® Features and Benefits Advanced Features Standards Support Network Management Physical Dimensions and Environmental

Neterion's Xframe^® V-NIC™ family, with Hyperframe™ technology: the only line of 10 GbE adapters designed for I/O virtualization

Xframe II is the industry's first 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter taking advantage of the PCI-X 2.0 bus architecture. It doubles the data rate delivered by the earlier bus standard (PCI-X 1.0) and unleashes the full line speed of 10 Gb/sec. It allows data center managers faced with exponentially increasing bandwidth needs to boost their network's performance while preserving their investment in Ethernet.

The Xframe V-NIC product family offers a unique multi-channel device model. A total of eight independent, hardware-based transmit and receive paths are available and each path may be prioritized for true Quality-of-Service support. By combining this novel architecture with the power of Extended Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI-X), Neterion has established a leading-edge framework for I/O virtualization (IOV). This set of unique, industry-leading IOV features is what consititutes Neterion's Hyperframe technology.

Capitalizing on Ethernet, the proven industry-standard for 30 years, the Xframe II 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter allows end-users to preserve their existing environment: operating systems, network administration tools, core cabling, personnel training, etc. Xframe II dramatically increases network performance, eliminates bottlenecks resulting from the explosion of data volumes, frees-up server and user-level bandwidth, boosts application response and slashes data backup times.

Xframe II is fully compliant with the PCI-X 2.0 Mode II specification and the IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard. The Xframe II host system interface is a 64-bit, 133 MHz (DDR) capable PCI-X bus. The Xframe II network interface is a 10 Gigabit Ethernet link, using standardized PMD (Physical Media Dependent) devices to ensure ready interoperability.

All Xframe V-NIC products include full IPv4 and IPv6 support, and comprehensive stateless offloads that preserve the integrity of current TCP/IP implementations without "breaking the stack." Xframe V-NIC drivers are available for all major Operating Systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux (included in the Kernel), Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX, IBM's AIX, Sun's Solaris and SGI's Irix.

All Neterion products are designed to be fully software forward-compatible with future releases.

Test results from leading OEM evaluation labs on the features and benefits of Xframe II, compared to 1 Gigabit Ethernet:

• Up to 10x higher throughput
• 50% lower latency
• TCP processing overhead reduced by 40%
• Up to 10-fold reduction in cabling expense

Xframe II Features and Benefits

Xframe II is based on a sophisticated state machine architecture with built-in HA/RAS (High Availability/Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) features that provide the highest performance and reliability available.

• 8 virtual transmit and receive paths that may be prioritized for QoS
• Extensive Protocol Offloads and Assists maximize host efficiencies by reducing host processing loads, and optimizing bus utilization
• "Deep-Split Bus Transaction Capacity" provides full utilization of PCI-X bus while achieving the industry's lowest latency
• Flexible Interrupt Features include INTA, PCI 2.2 Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI), and next generation MSI-X
• True QoS (Quality of Service) support for up to 8 levels in both directions, allowing traffic to be classified, prioritized, and queued at line rate
• 32 MB of on-board memory drastically reduces performance-degrading link-layer flow control
• Turn-key driver support for all major Operating Systems and server architectures (Custom driver development is available)
• ECC (SEC/DED) protection for all PCI-X Mode II bus transactions and on-board data and control structures
• "Carrier Grade" environmentals for power, thermal, and noise characteristics
• Modular design permits various connectivity options, including Short Reach optical (SR), Long Reach optical (LR), and CX-4 (copper).

Advanced Features

• TCP Checksum Offload (Tx and Rx; IPv4 and IPv6)
• TCP Large Send Offload support for segments up to 64 KB (plus headers)
• TCP Large Receive Offload
• UDP Checksum Offload (Tx and Rx; IPv4 and IPv6)
• UDP "Checksum Over Fragment" Offload (IPv4 and IPv6) for transactions up to 64 KB
• UDP Large Send Offload (IP fragmentation) for transactions up to 64 KB
• Advanced packet classification and prioritization features
• IPv4 Header Checksum Offload (Tx and Rx)
• IP Differentiated Services support
• Advanced Flow Control features (RED - Random Early Detection)
• 32 MB Rx Frame Buffer (host-configurable into prioritized queues)
• Support for up to 32 concurrent PCI-X split transactions
• Adaptive Interrupt Coalescence
• PCI Physical Pin (INTA) Interrupt support
• PCI Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) support for up to 32 unique interrupts
• PCI Extended Message Interrupt (MSI-X) support for up to 64 unique interrupts
• Extended-MSI (XMSI) support for up to 64 unique interrupts
• End-to-end SEC/DED ECC protection for all PCI-X Mode II bus transactions on-board control and data structures
• Redundant-State-Variable State Machine Error Protection for all on-board state machines

Standards Support

• PCI-X 2.0 Mode II and PCI 2.3 compliant 64 bit, 266 MHz (133 MHz DDR) host interface
• DIX/802.3 FCS Offload for Tx and Rx frames
• 802.3ad "Slow Protocol" frame support
• 802.3ad Link Aggregation support
• 802.1Q VLAN tag support (Tx append and Rx strip)
• 802.1D (ex. 802.1p) QoS support (Rx frame steering across up to 8 queues)
• Jumbo Frame support (up to 9600 Bytes)
• 802.3X Pause Frame support (in hardware)
• Unicast/Multicast Rx frame filtering for up to 256 address/mask pairs
• Microsoft Receive Side Scaling support
• Wake-on-LAN and ACPI power management support

Network Management

64-bit MAC Statistics include: MIB Statistics MIB2 Statistics MIB2 Extension RMON Statistics RMON 2 Statistics Automated DMA transfer of all Statistics to host memory

Physical Dimensions and Environmental

• Bus Type - PCI-X
• Bus Width - 64 bit
• Bus Speed (MHz) - 266 (133 DDR)
• Typical Power Consumption: 15 Watts
• Operating Temperature: 0 to 65º C
• Operating Humidity: 5 to 95%
• Length: 6.6" long (Half Length)
• Height: 4.2" tall (Full Height)

Physical Media Description Optical: 850nm SR Optical: 1310nm LR Copper Distance 300m 10km 15m Connector LC SC CX-4 Cable Type Multi Mode Fiber Single Mode Fiber Copper

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