| General | – 
      Intel® X540 10GbE controller with integrated 10GBase-T copper 
      PHYs | 
  
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      Compact size low-profile standard form factor | 
  
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      PCI-E x8 2.1 (2.5GT/s or 5GT/s) interface | 
  
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      Dual RJ-45 connectors with speed up to 10Gb/port | 
  
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      Load balancing on multiple CPUs | 
  
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      Intel® PROSet Utility for Windows® Device Manager | 
  
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      Maximum power consumption: about 13W | 
  
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    | I/O 
      Features | – 
      Intel® QuickData Technology: DMA engine that enhances data acceleration 
      and lowers CPU usage | 
  
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      Support jumbo frames of up to 15.5KB | 
  
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      802.1q VLAN sup | 
  
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      Two integrated independent 10GBase-T interfaces operate at 10GBase-T 
      (10Gb/s) and 1000Base-T (1Gb/s) modes | 
  
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      Direct Cache Access (DCA) to avoid cache misses | 
  
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      MSI-X support to minimize interrupt overhead of and allow load-balancing 
      between multiple cores/CPUs | 
  
    |   | Receive 
      and Transmit Side Scaling for Windows environment and Scalable I/O for 
      Linux environments | 
  
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    | Performance 
      Features: | – 
      TCP/UDP Segmentation Offload | 
  
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      IPv6 Support for IP/TCP and IP/UDP Receive Checksum 
    Offload | 
  
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      Supports Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) | 
  
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      Low latency interrupts | 
  
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      DCA support | 
  
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    | Virtualization 
      Features | – 
      Support for Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq and Next-generation 
      VMDq) | 
  
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      L2 Ethernet MAC address and VLAN filters | 
  
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      PC-SIG SR-IOV implementation | 
  
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      Advanced Packet Filtering | 
  
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      VLAN support to allow creation of multiple VLAN 
  segments | 
  
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      VXLAN through Software | 
  
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    | Compliance/Environmental | RoHS 
      Compliant 6/6, Pb Free | 
  
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    | Manageability 
      Features | – 
      Preboot eXecuation Environment (PXE) support | 
  
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      Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and | 
  
    |   | Remote 
      Network Monitoring (RMON) statistics counters | 
  
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      iSCSI remote boot | 
  
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      Asset Management Features | 
  
    | OS 
      Support | – 
      Windows® Server 2008 R2 SP1, 7 SP1, Server 2008 SP2, Vista 
      SP2, | 
  
    |   | Server 
      2003 R2, 2003 SP2, 2008 SP2 | 
  
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      Linix Kernel version 3.1.x & 2.6.X | 
  
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      FreeBSD 8 | 
  
    | Cables 
      Support | – 
      RJ-45 Category-6 up to 55m; Category-6A up to 100m | 
  
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    | Operating 
      Conditions | – 
      Operating temperature: 0°C to 55°C | 
  
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    | Physical 
      Dimensions | – 
      Card PCB dimensions: 14.99cm x 6.93cm (5.9in x 2.73in) 
    (LxW) | 
  
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      Height of end brackets: standard - 12cm (4.725in), low-profile – 7.94cm 
      (3.13in) | 
  
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    | Optional 
      Accessories | – 
      CBL-NTWK-0603: RJ45 CAT6A 550MHz Rated Blue 3 ft patch 
    cable | 
  
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      CBL-NTWK-0604: RJ45 CAT6A 550MHz Rated Blue 5 ft patch 
    cable | 
  
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      CBL-NTWK-0605: RJ45 CAT6A 550MHz Rated Blue 6 ft patch 
    cable | 
  
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      CBL-NTWK-0606: RJ45 CAT6A 550MHz Rated Blue 9 ft patch 
    cable | 
  
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      CBL-NTWK-0609: RJ45 CAT6A 550MHz Rated Blue 15 ft patch 
      cable | 
  
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      CBL-NTWK-0610: RJ45 CAT6A 550MHz Rated Blue 18 ft patch 
      cable | 
  
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      CBL-NTWK-0611: RJ45 CAT6A 550MHz Rated Blue 21 ft patch 
      cable | 
  
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      CBL-NTWK-0612: RJ45 CAT6A 550MHz Rated Blue 24 ft patch 
      cable |