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Dual-Port 10GbE PCIe Gen 3 Compatible 
Enterprise Server Adapter

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SFN6122F dual-port PCIe Gen 3 compatible 10G Ethernet SFP+ enterprise server

adapter delivers unmatched message rates with low latency and jitter over standard Ethernet

along with the lowest CPU utilization and power consumption, enabling the industry’s best 

performance and scalability for financial services and other enterprise data centers.

SFN6122F is designed to address issues facing

data center managers today. Equipped to

handle increasing application loads of the latest

multi-core processors, it delivers superior

throughput and low latency, with minimal CPU

load for the consolidation and deployment of

high-density servers. The SFN6122F supports

data networking with concurrent support of

iSCSI and NAS traffic – while remaining true

to the need for cost effective, power-efficient

and high-performance network I/O.

SFN6122F delivers the industry’s lowest latency

at high message rates to customers with leading

edge financial services and enterprise data

center deployments. SFN6122F also delivers

the industry’s highest message rate and lowest

latency jitter, with full 40 Gbps bidirectional line-

rate performance. Featuring a rich set of state-

less offloads, it provides efficient acceleration of

the most demanding network protocol tasks.

SFN6122F supports a wide range of drivers

that are compatible with all Solarflare products,

including the market-leading SFN5122F.

SFN6122F also supports Solarflare’s Open-

Onload

®

application accelerator, a full-featured,

high-performance user-level network stack for

Linux. OpenOnload provides unprecedented

low latency performance with application 

compatibility and protocol compliance, 

bypassing kernel and networking overheads,

while featuring binary compatibility with standard

APIs and applications.

With 10x the number of vNICs and virtual

PCIe functions than the competition,

SFN6122F performance scales as the

number of CPU cores and virtual machines

increase, resulting in enhanced application

performance while supporting more appli-

cations per physical server. SFN6122F

supports NetQueue, VMQ, and SR-IOV

used to accelerate guest applications in

leading hypervisors, such as VMware,

Hyper-V, Linux KVM, and XenServer. 

This relieves network I/O bottlenecks in 

virtualized environments dedicating full

network bandwidth directly to virtualized

applications while maintaining full hypervisor

management services.

At less than 6 Watts, the SFN6122F consumes

less than half the power of the leading 

competitors’ products, and delivers 5-10x 

the efficiency of 1G Ethernet (Gbps/Watt).

This results in a power efficient 10G network

that can save thousands of dollars of operating

costs for a typical data center. The SFN6122F

is also compatible with the Energy Star

®

guideline for power consumption.

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