Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X520-DA2 - E10G42BTDABLK

Intel's family of adapters, the Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X520 with SFP+ connectivity, are the most flexible and scalable Ethernet adapters for today's demanding data center environments. Data center networks are being pushed to their limits. The escalating deployments of servers with multi-core processors and demanding applications such as High Performance Computing (HPC), database clusters, and video-on-demand are driving the need for 10 Gbps connections. Customers require flexible and scalable I/O solutions to meet the rigorous requirements of running mission-critical applications in virtualized and unified storage environments.

• iWARP RDMA
• PCI Express* (PCIe) v3.0, x8
• Network Virtualization offloads: VXLAN, GENEVE, and NVGRE
• Intel® Ethernet Flow Director for hardware based application traffic steering
• Data Plane Development
• Kit (DPDK) optimized for efficient packet processing
• Excellent small packet performance for network appliances and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
• Intelligent offloads to enable high performance on servers with Intel® Xeon® Processors
• I/O virtualization innovations for maximum performance in a virtualized server