sun 10 gigabit network adapter

The company sun microsystems reported the release of the first 10 gigabit net adapter, optimized for multiprocessor systems and polynuclear CPU. Device is the result of the project neptune, at which Sun worked in the past year. New adapter uses the created by company custom-made microcircuit (ASIC) whereas, previously Sun bought 10 gigabit controllers in S2IO.

New product must enlarge the possibilities of contemporary servers, who use parallel data processing, after ensuring the hardware separation of net flows (support of for of hardware-based flow classification) and parallel line turnings to memory (multiple Of dMAs).

As the physical medium for the transmission of data the new product uses in this case the parallel possible connection on two ports. Maximum speed under these conditions 16 Gbit/s. support the standards IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.1Q VLAN, IEEE 802.3ad (link aggregation), and also the calculation of check sums packets TCP/UDP/IP (checksum offload).

For the installation to the motherboard is used the PCI express x8, declared maximum theoretical capacity is 40 Gbit/s in the bidirectional regime.

Adapter is executed in the low-end size and it will be supplied with servers sun fire t1000, T2000, V215, V245, V445, Netra t2000 and the working stations Of sun ultra 45. Among supported operating systems - Solaris, Red hat linux and Suse linux.

The maximum energy consumption of adapter is 24,33 W, and default - 20,74 W. The length of device - is 167,65 mm, and height - 68,9 mm.

It is possible to definitely say that by this product sun will strengthen both positions of its servers and OS solaris. Cost of adapter is 500 dollars.

sun 10 gigabit network adapter

SUN 10 GIGABIT NETWORK ADAPTER