Key Features

• PCI Express 2.1 (2.5GT/s or 5GT/s)
• 2 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 (4W Typical)
• iSCSI Remote Boot Support
• PXE Boot Support
• Flexible I/O Virtualization and Quality of Service (QoS)
• RoHS compliant 6/6

Specification

• General
   - Intel® i350 GbE controller
   - Compact size microLP form factor
   - PCI-E 2.1 x4 (2.5GT/s or 5GT/s) interface
   - Dual RJ-45 connectors
   - Intel® PROSet Utility for Windows® Device Manager
   - Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (I/O AT)
   - Power consumption: Typical 4W

• Ethernet Features
   - IEEE 802.3 auto-negotiation for speed, duplex, & 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)
   - 8 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)