Chelsio 2-port Low Profile 1/10GbE Server Offload Adapter With PCI-E x8 Gen 3

T5. The T5 is Chelsios TCP offload (TOE) design, iSCSI design, and iWARP (RDMA) implementation. For the server connection, the T5 chip included a PCI Express v3.0 x8 host bus interface. T5 also provides support for PCIe I/O virtualization. Packet switching and routing. T520-SO-CR integrates a high performance packet switch, which allows switching traffic from any of the input ports to any of the output ports (wire-to-wire) and from any of the output ports to any of the input ports (host-to-host). The unified wire solution. With the T520-SO-CR, Chelsio is enabling a unified wire for LAN, SAN, and cluster traffic. This unified wire was made possible by the high bandwidth and low latency of 10GbE combined with storage and cluster protocols operating over TCP/IP. In parallel, operating systems and hypervisors have incorporated native support for iSCSI and database applications are now supporting file-based storage protocols such as NFS as an alternative to SANs. Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) provides a transition path from legacy SANs to converged networks. Expanding its unified wire approach, Chelsio has added FCoE hardware support for the adapter. The adapters two ports and IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation/failover features are ideal for critical network applications that require redundancy and high-availability capabilities. T520-SO-CR Ethernet-only networking reduces the data centers cost in network adapters, cables, switches, rack space, power, equipment spares, management tools, planning, networking skills and installation. Robust, proven solution. Chelsios robust, stable protocol offload technology delivers proven performance in a wide range of environments. The T520-SO-CR is generations ahead of competing products. Complete and flexible TCP offload. The T5 has hundreds of programmable registers for protocol configurations, RFCs, and offload control. The T520-SO-CR can offload processing per connection, per-server, per-interface, and globally and simultaneously tunnel traffic from non-offloaded connections to the host processor for the native TCP/IP stack to process. The T520-SO-CR provides a flexible zero-copy capability for regular TCP connections, requiring no changes to the sender, to deliver line rate performance at minimal CPU utilization.