The Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapters are a family of high performance PCIe and OCP adapters. The adapters are available with either two ports or four ports and are supported on ThinkSystem and System x servers.
This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the NetXtreme GbE offerings and their key features, specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the adapters and consider their use in IT solutions.
- One, two, or four 1/1/1 copper ports with RJ45 for Cat 5e/6 cabling
- Full line-rate performance across all ports
- Standard form factor adapters, either PCIe low profile or OCP 3. SFF
- PCI Express 2. host interface
- Jumbo Frames support (96 bytes frames)
- Wake-on-LAN (WoL) support
- IEEE 82.1q VLAN support - provides enhanced network management and efficiency
- I/O virtualization (IOV) support for VMWare NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ - improves network performance in virtualized environments
- IEEE 82.3x flow control support
- IEEE 82.3ad link aggregation support
- IEEE 82.3 auto-negotiation support
- Automatic MDI crossover
- Receive and transmit side scaling
- TCP, IP, and UDP checksum offload
- Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) and MSI-X support - Maximizes server processing performance by reducing CPU overhead and lowering interrupt latency
- On-chip temperature monitor (NetXteme I only)
- IEEE 82.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) compliant - Reduces adapter power consumption by up to 42% through intelligent adaptive power management, adjusting power based on data traffic load. (NetXtreme I only)
- IEEE 82.3z (Clause 3) - Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet like MIB, and Ethernet MIB (NetXtreme I only)
- IEEE 1588 Precision Time Control and 82.1AS time synchronization support - Provides greater accuracy of data packet delivery within the network (NetXtreme I only)
- Management using Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), and Broadcom Management API (BMAPI)
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