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QLE3044
Quad Port 1GbE to PCIe
® 
Intelligent Ethernet Adapter
Benefits
Increased application throughput and reduced host 
 
CPU utilization due to stateless protocol offloads
Optimal use of I/O slots — multiple network ports 
 
available on a single card
Most power-efficient quad port Gigabit Ethernet 
 
(GbE) card on the market
Performance scalability for consolidated server 
 
environments
Investment protection — full programmability 
 
allows changes to protocols to be implemented in 
firmware, avoiding expensive hardware upgrades
Improved reliability and error handling benefits of 
 
PCI Express
®
 (PCIe)
Features
Checksum and stateless offloads
 
NetSlice™ I/O
 
Wake on LAN
 
Four ports for teaming and failover
 
QLE3044 Intelligent Ethernet Adapter.
  The QLE3044 is a quad port 1GbE 
Intelligent  Ethernet  adapter  designed  for  various  applications  such  as 
virtualization;  network  security  appliances;  cluster  computing;  IP  content 
delivery  systems;  grid  computing;  database  clustering;  Network Attached 
Storage (NAS); and storage and backup servers.
Performance  Optimized. 
  The  QLE3044  is  a  high-performance  Intelligent 
Ethernet  adapter  that  can  support  offload  of  TCP/IP  tasks,  significantly 
improving throughput of servers, server appliances, and storage platforms, all 
while reducing host CPU utilization.  This allows overall system performance 
to scale dramatically.
NetSlice Technology. 
 In the dynamic data center environment, managers 
need flexible solutions that can evolve along with the technology to protect 
current investments in virtualization and server consolidation.  The QLogic 
NetSlice  architecture  addresses  these  requirements  by  incorporating  a 
unique  degree  of  programmable  support  for  virtualization.    The  NetSlice 
architecture  creates  a  platform  that  exports  a  number  of  independent 
virtual interfaces, with each virtual interface utilizing a share of the existing 
(hardware) resources.  Each virtual interface is serviced in a fair manner. 
Optionally, each interface can be assigned a priority that determines how 
much of a share of the underlying resources are allocated to that interface. 
Strong isolation is built around each interface to ensure that one interface 
does not adversely affect another.
Investment Protection.
  The QLE3044 is built around QLogic’s revolutionary 
Protocol  Processing  Engine  architecture  and  allows  for  the  support  of 
multiple protocols on the same hardware.  QLogic also uses common drivers 
across all Intelligent Ethernet (10GbE and 1GbE) adapters, which reduces 
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Unmatched  Expertise.
    QLogic  is  a  leading  supplier  of  high  performance 
network  infrastructure  solutions  including  Fibre  Channel,  Ethernet,  iSCSI, 
InfiniBand, and Converged Network adapters.