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Dual-Port 10GbE Enterprise Server Adapter

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The Solarflare

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SFN5122F dual-port 10G Ethernet SFP+ enterprise server adapter delivers 

the industry’s best application performance, lowest power consumption, and most scalable 

virtualization, enabling unmatched performance and scalability for enterprise data centers.

The SFN5122F is designed to address issues

facing data center managers today. Equipped

to handle the application loads of the latest

multi-core processors, it delivers unmatched

performance scaling for high-density server

deployments, while utilizing a single driver

across all Solarflare server adapter products.

The SFN5122F 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.

SFN5122F delivers the industry’s lowest

latency at the highest message rates to

customers with leading edge enterprise data

center deployments. SFN5122F 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 stateless offloads, it provides

efficient acceleration of the most demanding

network protocol tasks.

SFN5122F supports Solarflare’s OpenOnload

®

application accelerator, a full-featured, high-

performance user-level network stack for

Linux. OpenOnload provides unprecedented

performance with application compatibility

and protocol compliance, bypassing kernel

and networking overheads, while featuring

binary compatibility with standard APIs and

applications.

The SFN5122F is designed to optimize

virtualized application performance and

maximize the use of network resources.

With 10x the number of vNICs and virtual

PCIe functions than the competition, I/O

performance scales as the number of CPU

cores and virtual machines increase resulting

in enhanced application performance 

supporting more applications per physical

server.

The SFN5122F accelerates guest applications

in leading hypervisors, supporting NetQueue

and VMQ in VMware and Hyper-V, and

SR-IOV in KVM and XenServer. SFN5122F

relieves network I/O bottlenecks hidden in

virtualized environments, allowing IT managers

to allocate full network resources directly to

virtualized applications. SFN5122F enables

the highest performance and lowest CPU

utilization in virtualized servers.

At less than 5 Watts, the SFN5122F consumes

less than half the power of the leading competi-

tors’ products, and delivers 5-10x the efficiency

of 1G Ethernet (Gbps/Watt). This not only

makes a power efficient 10G network possible,

it can save thousands of dollars of operating

costs for a typical data center. The SFN5122F

is also compatible with the Energy Star

®

guideline for power consumption.

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