Advantech MIC-3666, User Manual

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MIC-3666 User Manual 2
1.1 Introduction
The MIC-3666 is a low power, dual-port 10 GbE XMC, with SFP+ pluggable modules
for multi-mode and single-mode fiber media and is based on the Intel® 82599ES 10
Gigabit Ethernet controller. The XMC provides a high performance PCIe x8 interface
at 5 Gb/s per lane at an outstanding low power dissipation of less than 10 W. Support
for Intel’s offloading and platform enhancement features yields maximum network
throughput while preserving valuable CPU cycles for application processing.
The MIC-3666 features an Intel® 82599 which provides Intel® Virtualization Technol-
ogy for Connectivity (VT-c) including Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) and
PCI SIG compliant Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), helping to reduce I/O bot-
tlenecks, boost throughput, and reduce latency. Where virtualization is required,
VMDqs improve performance by offloading the data-sorting burden from the virtual
machine manager (VMM) to the network controller. The MIC-3666’s specialized fea-
tures include Layer 2 & 3 security with IPSec & LinkSec; Intel® I/OAT Acceleration
Technology v3.0; VLAN tagging, stripping and packet filtering; and TCP, iSCSI, and
Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offload.