Chelsio T420-LL-CR Dual Port 10G SFP+ PCI-E Unified Wire Adapter 110-1146-40 SFF

Chelsio T420-LL-CR Dual Port 10G SFP+ PCI-E Unified Wire Adapter 110-1146-40 SFF

Type: Wired
Brand: CHELSIO
Model: T420-LL-CR
MPN: T420-LL-CR
Compatible Port: PCI Express x8
Network Ports: 2x SFP+
Max. Downstream Data Rate: 10Gbps
Interface Card Type: Ethernet/ Network Cards
UPC: Does Not Apply

Manufacturer's description:
High Performance, Dual Port 10GbE Unified Wire Adapter Enables TCP, UDP, iSCSI, iWARP, and FCoE Offload over Single Unified Wire with SR-IOV, EVB/VNTag, DCB

Overview
Chelsios T420-LL-CR is a dual port, low latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet Unified Wire adapter with PCI Express 2.0 host bus interface, optimized for financial and HPC applications. It is also a best in class 10GbE interconnect solution for cloud computing, virtualization, storage, and other data center applications.
The fourth-generation (T4) technology from Chelsio provides the highest 10GbE performance available and dramatically lowers host-system CPU communications overhead with on-board hardware that off-loads TCP/IP, iSCSI, FCoE and iWARP RDMA processing from its host system. T420-LL-CR frees up host CPU cycles for useful applications. The system achieves increased bandwidth, lower latency, and lower power.

The Unified Wire Solution
With the T420-LL-CR, Chelsio is enabling a unified wire for LAN, NAS, 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 (iSCSI, FCoE and iWARP respectively). 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.