Chapter 1 Product Overview 3
FeaturesThe Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low ProfileAdapter
provides the following features:
■Twofull-duplex 10 gigabit Ethernet interface that use a 10 gigabit Ethernet small
form factor pluggable (XFP), optical transceiver with duplex LC fiber connector
■IEEE 802.3ae 2002 compliant
■Uses Sun’s own ASIC and software for innovative throughputnetworking design
■Networking I/O virtualization supporting Solaris LDOM 1.0. (VMware support
planned for mid 07)
■Hardware-basedflow classification for extending parallelism and virtualization to
networking
■Up to 16 Receive DMA channels and up to 24 TransmitDMA channels, multiple
receive and transmit Descriptor Rings and dedicated networking hardware
resources (DMA, interrupts, buffer,and more) for each thread or strand
■CPU/thread affinity and CPU load balancing at L1,L2,L3 and L4
■Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR)
■Jumbo frame support (up to 9KBytes)
■IPv4/IPv6 and IPMP support
■TCP/UDP/IP checksum and CRC32C support
■IEEE 802.1Q VLAN support