ORACLE DATA SHEET SUN MULTITHREADED QUAD GIGABIT ETHERNET NETWORKING CARDS KEY FEATURES Oracle’s Sun Multithreaded Quad Gigabit Ethernet Networking ENTERPRISE-CLASS NETWORKING Cards hosts four high-performance gigabit interfaces in a single • Oracle multithreaded PCIe slot to provide high bandwidth server-to-server and server-to- networking technology • Quad-port x8 PCIe low-profile adapter and ExpressModule • Cost-effective network connectivity with four highperformance gigabit interfaces in single PCIe slot • Enhanced flexibility to provide extremely high bandwidth connectivity using multiple cards per server • Efficient throughput for large packet sizes through low overhead jumbo frame support switch connections while conserving valuable PCIe slots at a lower cost per port. It extends CPU and OS parallelism to networking with its support for Oracle’s Solaris Logical Domains (LDOMs), hardware-based flow classification, and multiple Direct Memory Access (DMA) channels. By reducing CPU processing loads with packet parsing, hardware check sum generation, and interrupt coalescing, the cards can also help increase server efficiency and mitigate network congestion. • Increased network reliability with multipathing and link aggregation features that help enable failover and load balancing • Reduced CPU load through hardware support for checksum generation, packet parsing and interrupt coalescing • Hardware-based flow classification that extends OS parallelism and virtualization to networking • RoHS-6 (lead-free) compliant Sun Multithreaded Quad Gigabit Ethernet Networking Cards improve network throughput. Protect Existing Investments Compliant with IEEE 802.3 standards, the Sun Multithreaded Quad Gigabit Ethernet Networking Cards can help protect investments in your existing infrastructure, applications, and expertise while helping you to upgrade portions of your network to higher network throughput. The interoperability can preserve your existing core wiring infrastructure and help enable a cost-effective and seamless migration to Gigabit Ethernet technology. Deliver Greater Performance The Sun Multithreaded Quad Gigabit Ethernet Networking Cards can help improve network throughput as well as application performance through features that help

ORACLE DATA SHEET you maximize the use of your network bandwidth and offload CPU resources. Using CPU thread affinity to bind a given flow to a specific CPU thread, it enables a oneto-one correlation of Rx and Tx packets across the same TCP connection. This can help avoid cross-calls and context switching to deliver greater performance while reducing the need for CPU resources to support I/O processing. Jumbo frame support can also help reduce the overhead associated with handling Ethernet packets. Sending and receiving large packets (up to 9 k bytes versus standard Ethernet packets of 1.5 k...

ORACLE DATA SHEET Sun Multithreaded Quad Gigabit Ethernet Networking Cards Specifications Physical Characteristics Low Profile Adapter Power Requirements • Maximum power consumption: 15 watts Typical power consumption: 10 watts Performance Specifications • Maximum Ethernet transfer rate: 1 Gb/sec each Ethernet port Host interface: x8 lane PCI-Express 1.1 Interface: IEEE 802.3ae 2002 compliant Optics: IEEE 802.3ae 2002 compliant Ethernet Relevant Standards Supported • IEEE 802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet standards IEEE 802.1P/802.1D Priority Tagging/QoS IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation TCP/UDP/IP h/w checksum...

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