Used ATTO Technology FastFrame NT11 Single Channel x8 PCIe 2.0 to 10GBase-T Network Interface Card, Low Profile

FastFrame NT11 10GBASE-T NIC offers speeds 47% faster than Fiber Channel with the structured Ethernet wiring and patch panels familiar to networking professionals. Cards, ports & cabling are backwards compatible to GigE - and you can run 10Gb Ethernet over Cat6A cabling that's already in place. FastFrame 10GBASE-T NICs provide high performance connectivity without the cost and compatibility concerns of proprietary optics and twin-ax direct connect cables.

• Intel X540 10GBASE-T Ethernet controller
• Data rate per port: 10GbE TCP, UDP, IPv4 and lPv6 checksum offloading
• Tx/TCP segmentation offload (Large send offload - LSO)
• Low latency interrupts
• Interrupt coalescing/moderation
• Data Center Bridging (DCB) support
• Header splits and replication in receive
• Direct cache access (DCA) eliminates cache misses and reduces CPU load
• Interrupt levels INTA, MSI, MSI-X
• 802.1p - Priority Encoding
• 802.1q - VLAN Tagging
• Priority flow controls (802.1Qbb)
• DCBX protocol (802.lQaz)
• 802.3ad - Link Aggregation
• Override MAC Address
• Plug and play specification support
• Advanced packet filtering
• VLAN support with tag Insertion and stripping
• Single-port configurations
• 10GBASE-T, RJ45 connectivity
• High-performance x8 PCIe 2.0 bus
• Low profile and standard height brackets
• Up to 10Gb/s throughput per port
• Auto negotiation at 10GBASE-T. 1000Base-T and 100Base-TX speeds for backwards compatibility. Supports phased upgrade to 10Gb Ethernet
• Use Cat6a or Cat7 cable for 10GBASE-T connections up to 100 meters
• Supports Data Center Bridging for improved iSCSI quality of service
• ATTO Xtend SAN iSCSI initiator for Mac OS X provides a complete iSCSI solution
• Driver support for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems
• TCP, UDP lPv4 and lPv6 checksum offloading IPsec offloading and Tx/TCP segmentation offloading
• Load-balancing on multiple CPUs
• Minimized interrupts for low latency

FastFrame NT11 provides lossless Ethernet (CEE) and Data Center Bridging (DCB) support provides improved iSCSI quality of service, for reliable access to storage. This enhanced iSCSI support makes FastFrame the ideal solution for, wiring closet/small data center installations, an existing NAS-dominated network, want to add network access to block data for remote offices or to support IP routing over longer distances and ease installation and management for local IT admins.

Up to 50 percent faster than Fiber Channel over existing structured Cat6a cabling. Power consumption 30 percent lower than competitors. Built on the latest Intel technology. Reliable, inexpensive, fast access to block storage via iSCSl at no additional cost. Lossless Ethernet (CEE) and Data Center Bridging (DCB) for improved iSCSI quality of service. ATTO FastFrame 10GBASE-T NICs are built on latest-generation industry-leading Intel silicon for ubiquitous usability and consume up to 30% less power than competitive 10GBASE-T NICs. A lower power rating means lower energy costs, lower data center maintenance fees and less heat to dissipate.

Fast Network and Storage Connectivity, Simplified
iSCSI support with Lossless Ethernet, provided at a premium by Competitors, is available free of charge with ATTO FastFrame network interface cards (NICs). Lossless Ethernet (CEE)/Data Center Bridging (DCB) is a collection of enhancements to the Ethernet standard that make Ethernet, a lossy protocol, suitable for use in storage area networks (SANs), VoIP and other applications with stringent performance requirements. With E/DCB, a correctly configured iSCSI SAN can approach Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) reliability, while remaining affordable and allowing for routable traffic over long distances.

While Lossless Ethernet provides improved iSCSI quality of service for reliable block storage access, RJ45 connectivity allows use of affordable structured Cat6a cabling. Cat6a cabling spares users the cost and compatibility concerns associated with optics and twin-ax direct attach cabling and is already widely deployed in many environments.

ATTO's High-Bandwidth/Low-Latency
Leadership On Intel's Next Generation
Industry-Leading Ethernet Platform
With FastFrame, single-chip integration results in lower power utilization with a low profile form factor, in single-port configurations. ATTO engineers FastFrame NICs for stable, near-line-speed data rates across a broad range of file sizes for predictable network performance, while minimizing CPU utilization.

Low Power Utilization for Lower Cost and Less Heat
FastFrame draws up to 30 percent less power than competing solutions. A lower power rating means lower energy costs, lower data center maintenance fees and less heat to dissipate.

Mac OS X, Windows and Linux Support
Long committed to the Apple market, ATTO leads in high performance I/O connectivity for Mac OS X environments. ATTO also offers Xtend SAN, an iSCSI initiator for OS X, to complete the solution. Acquire your NICs for multiple-OS environments from a single source - one familiar with the data intensive demands of content editing.

Applications
FastFrame's enhanced Ethernet and included iSCSI support makes it the ideal solution for
• Wiring closet/data center installations where the customer prefers to use Ethernet rather than Fiber Channel to access storage
• Adding network access to block data to an existing network area storage (NAS) dominated network
• Remote offices, to support IP routing over longer distances and ease installation and management for local IT admins
• Data-intensive environments for which GgE's performance has proven insufficient and consistent, predictable network performance is required.