| [Description |
| Intel continues its legacy of Ethernet leader- ship by introducing a 10/40 gigabit family of adapters powered by the Intel Ethernet X710 Controller code-named Fortville.The X710 adapter family addresses the demanding needs of the next-generation agile data center by providing unmatched features for both server and network virtualization, flexibility for LAN and SAN networks and proven, reliable performance. |
| Special Features |
| Dual- and quad-port 10 GbE adapters |
| PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0, x8 |
| Exceptional low power adapters |
| Network Virtualization offloads including Geneve, VXLAN and NVGRE |
| Intel Ethernet Flow Director for hardware based application traffic steering |
| Intel Data Plane Developer Kit (DPDK) optimized for efficient packet processing |
| Excellent small packet performance for network appliances and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) |
| Intelligent offloads to enable high performance with Intel Xeon servers |
| I/O virtualization innovations for maximum performance in a virtualized server |
| Unified networking providing a single wire support for LAN and storage |
NAS (SMB, NFS) and SAN (iSCSI, FCoE)] |