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NetEffect

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 NE020 Family Overview

10 Gb Accelerated Ethernet PCI Express* Adapters and Blade Adapters

Highlights

10 Gb accelerated Ethernet solutions

PCIe low-profi le adapters 

mezzanine cards for IBM* BladeCenter* H 

and HP* BladeSystem* c-Class

Ultra-low power consumption for higher 

computing densities 

One adapter handles simultaneous data, 

storage, and scale-out (clustering) networking

Single fi rmware image for all media, speeds, 

protocols, and ports

Support for Linux* and Windows* platforms

Performance

Industry-leading latency:  under 6 µsec 

sustained under load

Exceptional bandwidth:  over 18 Gbps per 

port, bi-directional

Applications

Demanding applications in fi nancial services, 

Oil and Gas, CAD/CAE and other industries

market data streaming

computational fl uid dynamics

fi nite element analysis and simulation

reservoir simulation and visualization

High-performance database, web servers, 

research clusters, and more

Applications reliant on fast network access 

or low latency

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Data center networks are being pushed to their limits.  Applications are becoming more 

complex; multi-processor server architectures are adding connections; cluster and grid 

configurations are becoming more prevalent; virtualized server environments are increasing 

the already heavy loads on networking infrastructures.  Helping data centers overcome 

their most demanding networking challenges, the NetEffect

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 NE020 family of 10 Gb 

accelerated Ethernet PCI Express (PCIe*) adapters and blade adapters is setting new 

standards in networking performance, power efficiency, and operational simplicity.  

A single fi rmware image supports all protocols, 

speeds, media and ports, dramatically simplifying 

deployment and reducing ongoing maintenance.  

Applications using the broad range of NE020-

supported industry-standard APIs require no 

modifi cation or recompilation; the performance 

benefi ts of lower latency and higher bandwidth 

are realized instantly.

Fully accelerated performance by design

NE020 adapters leverage an elegant Virtual 

Pipeline Architecture to implement all the IETF-

approved iWARP extensions to TCP/IP.  Every 

adapter integrates a TCP/IP offl oad engine (TOE), 

RDMA over Ethernet, and user level direct 

access features that work together to improve 

both performance and overall power effi ciency.

The economies of Ethernet ubiquity

By giving data centers a way to standardize on 

Ethernet, NE020 adapters eliminate the need to 

deploy multiple, disparate interconnect technol-

ogies and maintain separate management tools 

and personnel to support them. Leveraging 

existing Ethernet economies, expertise and tools 

reduces operational and capital equipment costs. 

Meeting the needs of all data center networks

Whether ‘business-critical’ means moving more 

data faster, handling more transactions or users,  

or reducing wall-clock times, NetEffect adapters 

give companies the networking performance 

they need to remove the data center obstacles 

to success.  With industry-leading latencies, wire-

saturating bandwidths, and the industry’s highest 

CPU productivity, NE020 solutions deliver 

predictable, sustained performance in the dense 

multiple-connection environments common in 

multi-core, multi-processor confi gurations, high-

performance computing, and virtualized server 

implementations.  They achieve time-to-

completion equal to or better than Infi niBand*.   

Lower power, more processing per square foot

NE020 adapters consume less than seven watts, 

half the power required by competitive 10 Gb 

products.  Conserved watts can be put to use 

increasing rack density (processing per square 

foot) or lowering energy costs.   

Simplifi ed deployment and infrastructure

Through a unique single adapter/single fi rmware 

design, only one NE020 adapter is needed to 

support simultaneous connectivity to scale-out 

(clustering), data and storage networks.  This 

eliminates the need to spare three dissimilar 

interfaces and the need for fi xed application/ 

resource provisioning to specifi c servers/blades.