Cisco Intel Dual Port 10 GBE-Ethernet X520 Server Adapter

This 10 Gigabit X520-T2 Ethernet Server adapter showcases Intel's standards-based 10GBASE-T adapter in a low-profile PCI Express form factor. This new dual port adapter provides bandwidthintensive applications highly affordable 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) network performance with cost-effective RJ-45 connections for distances up to 100 meters.

The drive to 10 Gigabit Ethernet comes from the latest information technologies including virtualization, advances in storage architectures, network convergence, server clustering, forms of information delivery using the Internet, and the next wave of digital and social media content.

When implemented within multi-core processor environments, the Intel Ethernet Server adapter X520-T2 offers advanced networking features, Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel I/OAT), for efficient distribution of Ethernet workloads across CPU cores. Load balancing of interrupts using MSI-X enables more efficient response times and application performance. CPU utilization can be lowered further through stateless offloads such as TCP segmentation offload, header replications/splitting, and Direct Cache Access (DCA).