Datasheet

QLogic 10Gb CNA for IBM System x and IBM Power Systems 3
The QLogic 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver has the following features:
Laser Class 1 compliance
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Support for the SFP+ cages on the 42C1800 adapter
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Standard SFP+ form factor for multimode Fiber SR
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Ethernet specifications
The QLogic 10Gb CNA has the following Ethernet specifications:
Throughput: 10 Gbps full duplex line rate per port
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Topology: Any 10Gb Ethernet Network
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Ethernet Frame: 1500 byte or 9000 byte (Jumbo Frame)
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Stateless offload features:
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IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offloads
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Large and Giant Send Offload (LSO, GSO)
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Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
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Header-data split
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Interrupt coalescing
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NetQueue
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Enhanced Ethernet features:
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Priority-based flow control (802.1Qbb rev. 0)
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Enhanced transmission selection (802.1Qaz rev. 0)
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DCBX protocol (802.1Qaz rev. 0)
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Compliance
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IEEE: 802.3ae (10Gb Ethernet)
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802.1q (VLAN)
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802.3ad (Link Aggregation)
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802.1p (Priority Encoding)
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802.3x (Flow Control)
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802.3ap (KX/KX4)
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802.3ak (CX4)
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IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG)
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IPv4 Specification (RFC 791)
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IPv6 Specification (RFC 2460)
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TCP/UDP Specification (RFC 793/768)
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ARP Specification (RFC 826)
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FCoE specifications
The QLogic 10Gb CNA has the following FCoE specifications:
Performance: 250,000 IOPS per port
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Logins: Support for 2048 concurrent logins and 2048 active exchanges
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Class of service: Class 3
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Protocols: FCP (SCSI-FCP), FC-TAPE (FCP-2)
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