Ethernet CTLR Single Chip 40Gbps 0.85V to 3.3V 576-Pin FCBGA Tray

Extending Intel® Virtualization Technology beyond server virtualization to the network with hardware optimizations and off-loads for the rapid provisioning of networks in an agile data center.

• 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Controller: Dual and Single 40 GbE, Quad and Dual 10 GbE configurations
• PCI Express* (PCIe) 3.0, x8 including Direct I/O optimizations via TLP Processing Hints (TPH)1
• Intelligent Off-load to enable high-performance with Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers
• Network Virtualization off-loads including VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve, Network Service Headers (NSH)2
• Industry-leading I/O virtualization innovations and performance with broad hypervisor and standards support
• Intel® Ethernet Flow Director: For hardware application traffic steering
• Excellent small packet performance for network appliances and NFV
• Intel® Data Plane Developer Kit Optimized
• Unified Networking providing a single wire for LAN and storage: NAS (SMB, NFS) and SAN (iSCSI)1