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AOC-CTG-i2T Add-on Card User's Guide
1-3 Technical Specifications
General
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Intel® X540 10GbE controller with integrated 10GBase-T copper PHYs
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Compact size 2U MicroLP form factor
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PCI-E x8 2.1 (2.5GT/s or 5GT/s) interface
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Dual RJ-45 connectors with speed up to 10Gb/port
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Load balancing on multiple CPUs
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Intel® PROSet Utility for Windows® Device Manager
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Maximum power consumption: about 13W
I/O Features
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Intel® QuickData Technology: DMA engine that enhances data acceleration and
lowers CPU usage
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Support for jumbo frames of up to 9KB
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802.1q VLAN support
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Two integrated independent 10GBase-T interfaces operate at 10GBase-T
(10Gb/s) and 1000Base-T (1Gb/s) modes
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Direct Cache Access (DCA) to avoid cache misses
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MSI-X support to minimize interrupt overhead and to allow load-balancing be-
tween multiple cores/CPUs
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Receives and Transmits Side Scaling for Windows environment and Scalable
I/O for Linux environments
Performance
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TCP/UDP Segmentation Offload
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IPv6 Support for IP/TCP and IP/UDP Receive Checksum Offload
