Based on the new Intel I350-T4 Gigabit Ethernet Controller, the Intel Ethernet Dual Port and Quad Port Server Adapters for IBM System x are Intel's fourth generation of PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet (PCIe GbE) adapters. These adapters showcase the industry's first fully integrated, multi-port PCIe 2.1 GbE controllers, providing a smaller footprint and lower power dissipation.
The adapters have the following features:
Four 10/100/1000 copper ports with RJ45 for Cat 5e/6 cabling
Based on Intel I350-T4 ASIC (quad-port MAC/PHY controller)
PCIe 2.1 x4 host interface
Low-profile card form factor
Wake on LAN support
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) boot support
VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, stripping, and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags
iSCSI boot support (built-in software iSCSI initiator)
iSCSI support with native operating system initiators
Jumbo frame support
Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) acceleration
Intel Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) support for VMware with eight queues per port
TCP/IP checksum offload
TCP/IP segmentation offload / large-send offload support