Two 10/100/1000 copper ports with RJ45 for Cat 5e/6 cabling
Full line-rate performance across all ports
Low-profile form factor - supported by the majority of System x and iDataPlex servers
PCI Express 2.0 host interface
Jumbo Frames support (9600 bytes frames)
IEEE 802.1q VLAN support - provides enhanced network management and efficiency
I/O virtualization (IOV) support for VMWare NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ - improves network performance in virtualized environments
IEEE 802.3x flow control support
Receive and transmit side scaling
TCP, IP, and UDP checksum offload
Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) and MSI-X support - maximizes server processing performance by reducing CPU overhead and lowering interrupt latency
The Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapters are a family of high performance PCI Express adapters. The adapters are two ports and are supported on ThinkSystem and System x servers.