Description
Flexible and Scalable 10/25GbE Network Adapter with Hardware Optimizations and Intelligent Offloads for Cloud and Network Virtualization Deployment
The Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 is a new addition to the Intel® Ethernet 700 Series network adapters.
The Intel® Ethernet 700 Series network adapters address the demanding needs of the next-generation agile data center by providing unmatched features for both server and network virtualization, flexibility for LAN and SAN networks and proven, reliable performance.
Leading 10/25GbE Performance
The Intel Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 delivers excellent performance with a theoretical throughput of 50Gb/s (25Gb/s single-port bi-directional), in a PCI Express v3.0 x8 slot.
Optimized performance vectors and key uses include:
The Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 is a new addition to the Intel® Ethernet 700 Series network adapters.
The Intel® Ethernet 700 Series network adapters address the demanding needs of the next-generation agile data center by providing unmatched features for both server and network virtualization, flexibility for LAN and SAN networks and proven, reliable performance.
Leading 10/25GbE Performance
The Intel Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 delivers excellent performance with a theoretical throughput of 50Gb/s (25Gb/s single-port bi-directional), in a PCI Express v3.0 x8 slot.
Optimized performance vectors and key uses include:
- Small Packet Performance: Achieves wire-rate throughput on smaller payload sizes (>69 bytes for 25GbE and 64 bytes for 10GbE in single port).
- Bulk Transfer Performance: Delivers line-rate performance with low CPU usage for large application buffers.
- Virtualized Performance: Alleviates hypervisor I/O bottlenecks by providing flow separation for Virtual Machines (VMs).
- Network Virtualization: Network virtualization overlay offloads including VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE, MPLS, VXLAN-GPE with NSH.
- Adaptive link establishment enables increased interoperability with other 25GbE capable switches and host controllers
- I/O virtualization innovations for maximum performance in a virtualized server
- Intelligent offloads to enable high performance on servers with Intel® Xeon® processors
- Excellent small packet performance for network appliances and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
- Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) optimized for efficient packet processing
- Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) enables increased packet processing efficiency for NFV and Cloud deployments
- Intel® Ethernet Flow Director for hardware based application traffic steering
- Network Virtualization offloads including VXLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE, MPLS, and VXLAN-GPE with Network Service Headers (NSH)
- IEEE 802.3by and 25GEthernet.org specification compliance
- PCI Express* (PCIe) v3.0, x8
- Supports single and dual port 1/10/25GbE configurations
- OCP Spec. v2.0, Type 1 and Type 2
