Xframe II Sun Fire 10 Gigabit Ethernet low profile Adapter
Xframe II Sun Fire is a 10 Gigabit Ethernet low profile adapter taking advantage of the PCI-X bus architecture. Unleashing the speed of 10Gb/sec, Xframe II Sun Fire can be easily integrated into low profile space constrained environments such as Sun’s Thumper X4500 data-server. The Xframe product family offers a unique multi-channel device model. A total of eight independent transmit and receive paths are available and each path may be prioritized for true Quality-of-Service support. By combining this novel architecture with the power of Extended Message Signalled Interrupts (MSI-X), Neterion has established a leading-edge framework for I/O Virtualization.
Capitalizing on Ethernet, the proven industry-standard for 30 years, the Xframe II 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter allows end-users to preserve their existing environment: operating systems, network administration tools, core cabling, personnel training, etc. Xframe II dramatically increases network performance, eliminates bottlenecks resulting from the explosion of data volumes, frees-up server and user-level bandwidth, boosts application response and slashes data backup times. Xframe II Sun Fire is fully compliant with the PCI-X 2.0 Mode II specification and the IEEE802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard. The Xframe II Sun Fire host system interface is a 64-bit, 133 MHz PCI-X bus, fully compatible with PCI-X 1.0 and 2.0 slots. This interface may be run in DDR (double data rate) mode on systems that support it. The network interface is a 10 Gigabit ethernet link, using standardized PMD (Physical Media Dependent) devices to ensure ready interoperability. All Xframe products include full IPv4 and IPv6 support, and comprehensive stateless offloads that preserve the integrity of current TCP/IP implementations without “breaking the stack.” Xframe drivers are available for all major Operating Systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux (included in the Kernel), Hewlett-Packard’s HP-UX, IBM’s AIX, Sun’s Solaris and SGI’s Irix. All Neterion products are designed to be fully software forward-compatible with future releases.
Features:
Xframe II Sun Fire is based on a sophisticated state machine architecture with built-in HA/RAS (High Availability/Reliability, Availability and Serviceability)
- Solaris 10, Microsoft Windows, Linux and more
- 8 virtual transmit and receive paths that may be prioritized for QoS
- Extensive Offloads and Assists reduce host processing loads and optimize bus utilization
- “Deep-Split Bus Transaction Capacity” increases PCI-X bus utilization and lowers latency
- True QoS support for up to 8 levels, allowing traffic to be classified, prioritized, and queued at line rate
- 32 MB of on-board memory drastically increases receive-side performance
- Full ECC protection for all bus transactions, on-board data and control structures
Specifications:
Advanced Features
- TCP Checksum Offload (Tx and Rx; IPv4 and IPv6)
- TCP Large Send Offload support for segments up to 64 KB (plus headers)
- TCP Large Receive Offload
- UDP Checksum Offload (Tx and Rx; IPv4 and IPv6)
- UDP “Checksum Over Fragment” Offload (IPv4 and IPv6) for transactions up to 64 KB
- UDP Large Send Offload (IP fragmentation) for transactions up to 64 KB
- Advanced packet classification and prioritization features
- IPv4 Header Checksum Offload (Tx and Rx)
- IP Differentiated Services support
- Advanced Flow Control features (RED – Random Early Detection)
- 32 MB Rx Frame Buffer (host-configurable into prioritized queues)
- Support for up to 32 concurrent PCI-X split transactions
- Adaptive Interrupt Coalescence
- PCI Physical Pin (INTA) Interrupt support
- PCI Message Signalled Interrupt (MSI) support for up to 32 unique interrupts
- PCI Extended Message Interrupt (MSI-X) support for up to 64 unique interrupts
- End-to-end SEC/DED ECC protection for all on-board control and data structures
- Redundant-State-Variable State Machine Error Protection for all on-board state machines
Standards Support
- PCI-X 1.0 and 2.0 compliant
- PCI 2.3 compliant
- DIX/802.3 FCS Offload for Tx and Rx frames
- 802.3ad “Slow Protocol” frame support
- 802.3ad Link Aggregation support
- 802.1Q VLAN tag support (Tx append and Rx strip)
- 802.1D (ex. 802.1p) QoS support (Rx frame steering across up to 8 queues)
- Jumbo Frame support (up to 9600 Bytes)
- 802.3X Pause Frame support (in hardware)
- Unicast/Multicast Rx frame filtering for up to 256 address/mask pairs
- Microsoft Receive Side Scaling Support
- ACPI power management support
Operating Systems Support
- Solaris 10 (all updates): driver included in S10 U3 or downloadable for previous versions
- Windows 2003: driver included in the OS build
- Linux: driver included in Kernel 2.6.4
- IBM AIX, HP-UX, SGI Irix, MacOS, FreeBSD, etc.
Physical Dimensions and Environmental
- Bus Type: PCI-X
- Bus Width: 64 bit
- Bus Speed (MHz): 266 in 2.0 slot, 133 in 1.0 slot
- Typical Power Consumption: 16 Watts
- Operating Temperature: 0 to 50° C
- Operating Humidity: 5 to 95%
- Minimum Operational Air Velocity: 250 LFM
- Length: 6.6” long (Half Length)
- Height: 2.536” tall (Low Profile)
Physical Media
- Description: Optical: 850nm SR - Optical: 1310nm LR
- Distance: 300m - 10km
- Connector: LC - LC
- Type: Multi-Mode Fibre - Single-Mode Fibre
