QLogic® FastLinQ™ 45000 Series Intelligent Ethernet Adapters are the newest generation of high performance adapters that are ideally suited for enterprise-class data centers, public and private clouds, managed service providers (MSPs) and telco deployments. The FastLinQ 45000 Series will include adapters that support 10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet (10/25/40/50/100GbE) and provide key features that include multi-protocol RDMA, server virtualization with NIC partitioning (NPAR) and single root IO virtualization (SR-IOV), networking tunneling with stateless offload for Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE), Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) and Generic Network Virtulization Encapsulation (GENEVE), and network storage with iSCSI and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offloads. The FastLinQ 45000 Series Intelligent Ethernet family includes 25GbE and 100GbE adapters with direct attach copper (DAC) connections that support LAN (TCP/IP) traffic at full line-rate speeds and key features for enterprise-class data centers and private/public cloud deployments:
All advertised features are enabled in the hardware. Actual feature availability is dependent on software driver releases. See release notes. |