Interface Masters Technologies has announced an addition to its 10Gbit Ethernet server adapter card family that is designed to integrate with PCI-express-based inline networking servers, including WAN acceleration, UTM, and IPS systems, and security and monitoring appliances such as firewalls, IDS systems, and analysis probes. The Niagara 32714L server adapter is a PCI-e x16, low-profile, low-power Quad Port 10GbE NIC, with SFP+ pluggable modules for multi-mode and single-mode fiber media.
The new device is based on the 10GE Intel 82599 Gigabit Ethernet controller, which provides PCI-e 2.0 (5GT/s) support, low power (6.2W) operation, and intelligent queue support optimised for multi-core processors consisting of 128 transmit and receive queues. The 82599 also offers Intel's virtualisation technology for connectivity, which reduces I/O bottlenecks, boosts throughput, and reduces latency.
The virtual machine device queues improve performance by offloading the data-sorting burden from the virtual machine manager to the network controller. The server adapter possesses specialised features such as layer two and three security including IPSec and LinkSec, Intel I/OAT acceleration v3.0, VLAN tagging, stripping and packet filtering, FCoE transmit, segmentation and offload, and SNMP and RMON statistic counters.
The device enables system integrators, IT security companies, service providers, datacentres, MSOs and telcos to utilise the new multi-port 10Gbit technology even in the space-sensitive server applications of 1U and 2U chassis. The device equips high bandwidth server appliances with optimised throughput and an extensive networking feature set. In addition, the PCI-e x16 delivers up to 80Gbit/s bidirectional connection to the CPU which assures high bandwidth.
