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The Sun Multithreaded Quad Gigabit Ethernet Networking Cards host four high-performance Gigabit interfaces in a single PCIe slot to provide high bandwidth server-to-server and server-to-switch connections while conserving valuable PCIe slots and providing a lower cost per port. It extends CPU and OS parallelism to networking with its support for Solaris logical domains (LDOMs), hardware-based flow classification and multiple Direct Memory Access (DMA) channels. By reducing CPU processing loads with packet parsing, hardware check sum generation and interrupt coalescing, the adapter can also help increase server efficiency and mitigate network congestion.
At a Glance
- Sun Multithreaded Quad Gigabit Ethernet Networking Cards include:
- Sun Quad GbE x8 PCIe Low Profile Adapter (X4447A-z) for Sun Rack Servers
- Sun Quad GbE x8 PCIe ExpressModule (X7287A-z) for Sun Blade Servers
- Very cost-effective network connectivity with four high-performance Gigabit interfaces in single PCIe slot
- Enhanced flexibility to provide extremely high bandwidth connectivity using multiple cards per server
- Efficient throughput for large packet sizes through low overhead Jumbo frame support
- Increased network reliability with multipathing and link aggregation features that enable failover and load balancing
- Reduced CPU load through hardware support for checksum generation, packet parsing and interrupt coalescing
- Hardware-based flow classification that extends OS parallelism and virtualization to networking
- RoHS-6 (Lead-Free) compliant
Key Applications
- Business Financial
- Customer Management Solutions
- Decision Support Data Warehouse
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Web Infrastructure
Key Industries
- Aerospace
- Automotive
- Education
- Energy
- Financial Services
- Global Government
- Healthcare
- Life Sciences
- Manufacturing
- Media, Entertainment & Internet Services
- Retail
- Telco
- Transportation and Travel
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Sun Quad GbE x8 PCIe ExpressModule (X7287A-z) for Sun Blade Servers
Protect Existing Investments
Compliant with IEEE 802.3 standards, Sun Multithreaded Quad Gigabit Ethernet Networking Cards can help protect investments in your existing infrastructure, applications and expertise while enabling you to upgrade portions of your network to higher network throughput. The interoperability can preserve your existing core wiring infrastructure and enable a cost–effective and seamless migration to Gigabit Ethernet technology.
Deliver Greater Performance
Sun's Gigabit Ethernet Cards can help improve network throughput as well as application performance through features that help you maximize the use of your network bandwidth and offload CPU resources. Using CPU thread affinity to bind a given flow to a specific CPU thread, it enables a one-to-one correlation of Rx and Tx packets across the same TCP connection. This can help avoid cross-calls and context switching to deliver greater performance while reducing the need for CPU resources to support I/O processing.
Jumbo Frame support can also reduce the overhead associated with handling Ethernet packets. Sending and receiving large packets (up to 9k bytes versus standard Ethernet packets of 1.5k bytes) reduces the total number of packets, resulting in a virtual increase in throughput and a reduction in CPU utilization. The cards also deliver fat pipe performance that is transparent to the application by enabling you to aggregate network traffic across multiple gigabit links.
Product Marketing Part Numbers
- Sun Quad GbE x8 PCIe Low Profile Adapter (X4447A-z) for Sun Rack Servers
- Sun Quad GbE x8 PCIe ExpressModule (X7287A-z) for Sun Blade Servers
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