User`s guide

Board Features
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Copper Board Features
The technical specifications for the copper Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express board are from
a technical specification page available at:
http://www.silicom-usa.com/pgx.php?p2=147
The copper Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express board includes these features:
• Independently Fiber Gigabit Ethernet channel/s support Gigabit Ethernet
1000Base-SX.
• Small Form Factor (SFF) LC Connectors.
• Independently copper Gigabit Ethernet channels support six, four, two and one
Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-T), Fast Ethernet (100Base-Tx) and Ethernet (10Base-T).
• Triple speed 1000Mbps (1000Base-T), 100 Mbps (100Base-Tx) and 10 Mbps
(100Base-T) operation.
• Nway auto negotiation automatic sensing and switching between 1Gbps full
duplex and 100 / 10 Mbps operations Simplex or Full Duplex.
• RJ-45 female connectors.
• Host Interface standard support PCI Express 1.0a.
• High performance, reliability, and low power use in Broadcom 5714 / 5715 / 5704
dual integrated MAC + PHY / SERDES chip controller.
• Ultra deep packet buffer per channel lowers CPU utilization.
• Dual high speed RISC processor per channel for advanced packet classification.
• Hardware acceleration that can offload tasks from the host processor. The
controllers can offload TCP/UDP/IP checksum calculations and TCP segmentation.
• Server class reliability, availability and performance features:
– Link Aggregation and Load Balancing:
Switch dependent: 802.3ad (LACP), Generic Trunking ( GEC / FEC)
Switch and NIC Independent.
Failover
• Priority queuing - 802.1p layer 2 priority encoding.
• Virtual LANs - 802.1q VLAN tagging.