Chelsio T420-SO-CR Internal Ethernet 10000Mbit/s

T420-SO-CR, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, PCI-E, LC Duplex Chelsio’s T420-SO-CR is a memory free dual port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Unified Wire adapter with PCI Express 2.0 host bus interface, optimized for cloud computing, virtualization, storage, and other data center ap-plications.

The fourth-generation (T4) technology from Chelsio pro-vides the highest 10GbE perfor-mance available and dramatical-ly lowers host-system CPU com-munications overhead with on-board hardware that off-loads TCP/IP, iSCSI, and FCoE pro-cessing from its host system. T420-SO-CR frees up host CPU cycles for useful applications. The system achieves increased band-width, lower latency, and lower power.

<b>The Unified Wire Solution</b>
With the T420-SO-CR, Chelsio is enabling a unified wire for LAN, and SAN traffic. This unified wire was made possible by the high band-width and low latency of 10GbE combined with storage protocols oper-ating over TCP/IP (iSCSI, and FCoE respectively).

In parallel, operating systems and hypervisors have incorporated na-tive support for iSCSI and database applications are now supporting file- based storage protocols such as NFS as an alternative to SANs.

T420-SO-CR includes a full-fledged integrated Traffic Manager for robust flow control, traffic management and QoS.

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) provides a transition path from leg-acy SANs to converged networks. Expanding its unified wire approach, Chelsio has added FCoE hardware support to the new T420-SO-CR adapter.

The adapter’s two ports and IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation/failover fea-tures are ideal for critical network applications that require redundancy and high-availability capabilities.

T420-SO-CR Ethernet-only networking reduces the data center’s cost in network adapters, cables, switches, rack space, power, equipment spares, management tools, planning, networking skills, and installation.