Key Features

• Single RJ45 connector (for i1T model) or dual RJ45 connectors (for i2T model)
• Low-Profile, Short Length Standard Form Factor
• PCI Express 3.0 x4 (8GT/s)
• Asset Management features with thermal sensor
• Intel's second generation, single-port 10GbE controller (for the i1T model), or dual-port 10GbE controller (for the i2T model) with integrated MAC and PHY
• IEEE802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
• VXLAN and NVGRE
• VMDq, PCI-SIG SR-IOV for Virtulization Environments
• Intel Ethernet Flow Director for hardware-based application traffic steering
• Jumbo Frames support up to 15.5KB
• Time Sync IEEE1588
• NC-SI for IPMI support
• RoHS compliant 6/6

Specification

·  General:

• Intel X550 AT2 (i2T) / X550 AT (i1T) 10GbE controller with integrated MAC and PHY
• Compact size low-profile standard form factor
• PCI-E 3.0 x4 (8GT/s, 5GT/s or 2.5GT/s) interface
• Dual/Single RJ45 connectors with speed up to 10Gb/port
• Maximum power consumption: 11W (-i2T), 9W (-i1T)

·  I/O Features

• Intel Flow Director
• MSI-X Support
• Multiple Queues: 128 Tx and Rx Per Port
• TCP/UDP, IPv4 Checksum Offloads
• RSS for Windows Environment Scalable I/O for Linux Environments
• IPv6 Support for IP/TCP and IP/UDP Receive Checksum Offload
• Tx TCP Segmentation Offload
• Large FC Receive
• Support for Packets Up to 15.5KB
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• DMA Coalescing
• Flow Director Filters:

• Up to 8 KB - Two Perfect-match Filters
• Up to 32 KB – Two Signature Filters
• Receive Side Coalescing (RSC)

• Virtualization Features:
• Multi-mode I/O Virtualization Operations
• VXLAN
• NVGRE
• Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq)
• Next Generation VMDq
• 64 Transmit (Tx) and Receive (Rx) Queue Pairs Per Port
• Flexible Port Partitioning: 64 Virtual Functions Per Port
• Support for PCI-SIG SR-IOV Specification
• EEE 802.1Q VLAN

• Remote Boot Options:
• Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) Flash Interface Support
• Intel Ethernet iSCSI Remote Boot
• Intel Boot Agent software: Linux boot via PXE or BOOTP, Windows Deployment Services, or UEFI

·  Management Features:

• Asset Management features with thermal sensor
• INC-SI for IPMI Support

·  Security and Power Management:

• Receive Packet Filtering
• Integrated IPsec Security Engines for Offloads of up to 1024 Security Associations(SA) for Each Tx and Rx
• IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
• LAN Disable Function
• Anti-spoofing for MAC and VLANs

·  OS Support:

• Windows® Server
• RedHat Linux
• SUSE Linux
• FreeBSD
• UEFI
• VMWare

·  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)
• Storage humidity: 90% non-condensing relative humidity at 35°C