SUPERMICRO 4-port GbE Card Based on Intel i350 (Retail Pack)

Key Features
3.9-inch Length, Low-Profile Standard Form Factor
PCI Express 2.1 (2.5GT/s or 5GT/s)
4 RJ-45 ports
Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (I/O AT)
VMDq, Next-Generation VMDq, and  PC-SIG SR-IOV for Virtualized Environments
Jumbo Frame Support up to 9.5KB
IEEE 802.3az – Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
Low Power Consumption (5W Typical)
iSCSI Remote Boot Support
Flexible I/O Virtualization and Quality of Service (QoS)
PXE Boot Support
RoHS compliant 6/6    


Specifications

General
Intel® i350 GbE controller
Compact size low-profile standard form factor
PCI-E 2.1 x4 (2.5GT/s or 5GT/s) interface
Quad RJ-45 connectors
Intel® PROSet Utility for Windows® Device Manager
Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (I/O AT)
Power consumption: about 5W

Ethernet Features
IEEE 802.3 auto-negotiation for speed, duplex, and flow control
IEEE 802.3x and 802.3z compliant flow control support
Automatic cross-over detection function (MDI/MDI-X)
1Gb/s Ethernet IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, 802.3ab PHY specifications Compliant
IEEE 1588 protocol and 802.1AS implementation

Power Management and Efficiency
IEEE 802.3az – Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) which reduces power
consumption of the PHY by about 50%
DMA Coalescing reduces platform power consumption
Active State Power Management (ASPM) support
LAN disable function
MAC Power Management controls
Low Power Link Up – Link Speed Control

Virtualization Features
VM to VM Packet forwarding (Packet Loopback)
Eight TX and RX queue pairs per port to support VMWare NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ
Flexible Port Partitioning: 32 Virtual Functions
PC-SIG SR-IOV implementation
IEEE 802.1q VLAN support
IEEE 802.1q advanced packet filtering

Performance Features
TCP/UDP, IPv4 and IPv6 checksum offloads to improve CPU usage
Low Latency Interrupts
Tx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4, IPv6) increases throughput and lowers processor usage
Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for Windows environment, Scalable I/O for Linux environments
Jumbo Frames support up to 9.5K Bytes
Intelligent interrupt generation

Remote Boot Options
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support
iSCSI remote boot for Windows, Linux, and VMware

OS Support
Windows® XP SP3, Vista SP2, 7 SP1 2003 SP2, 2008 SP2, 2008 R2S
RedHat EL 5.5, 6.0; SuSe SLES 10 SP3, 11 SP1
FreeBSD 8.0
VMware ESX 4.0, 4.1, 5.0
Xen

Cables Support
RJ-45 Category-5/5e up to 100m

Operating Conditions
Operating temperature: 0°C to 55°C (32°F to 131°F)
Storage temperature: -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F)

Physical Dimensions
Card PCB dimensions: 9.91cm (3.90in) x 6.35cm (2.50in) (L x H)
Height of end brackets: standard – 12cm (4.725in), low-profile – 7.94cm (3.13in)