1GbE Accelerated Adapters

NetEffect NE020 1Gb accelerated Ethernet adapters
deliver an immediate performance boost to 1GbE networks with minimal disruption or change to existing 1Gb cabling or switching infrastructure. A single adapter offers full-function data-center NIC capability and support for simultaneous traffic from scale-out (clustering), data, and storage applications over the same network.

• Highlights
• Key Specifications

• Low latency achieves wall clock-times approaching InfiniBand
• Exceptional bandwidth shortens application processing times
• Unmatched CPU availability through efficient network processing offload
• Predictable, sustained high performance under load for scale-out applications
• Efficient network interface for storage applications
  - Block (iSCSI & iSER) and file (NFS/CIFS & RDMA over NFS) protocols
  - Low CPU utilization for storage protocol processing
• Uses 20% less power than competitive 1Gb adapters
• Instant, transparent support for all applications, simply install and go
  - Support for broad range of industry standard APIs
  - Requires no modification, re-compilation or porting of existing applications
• One adapter replaces three
  - Single firmware image simplifies installation
  - Cuts adapter power up to 80%
  - Eliminates fixed adapter provisioning of server/applications enabling fewer
    servers to handle the application load
• Hardware-class performance for virtualized applications

• Latency: < 8 µsec
• CPU availability: >95%
• Power: < 4 W per port
• Dual- and quad-port configurations
• Host bus/form factor: PCI Express / PCI low-profile
• Interface support: twisted pair connectivity (1000BASE-T)