The Sun 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCI-X Adapter is a single port 133 MHz PCI-X card designed to immediately boost connectivity speeds for a wide range of Sun servers. Its advanced high-availability features include support for IEEE 802.1Q VLAN to give you more network topology control and Dynamic Reconfiguration, ideal for Sun's midrange and high-end systems with PCI-x I/O.
Easy compatibility
They include support for PCI-X and PCI standards, low- and standard-profile configurations, IPv4, IPv6, and IPMP standards to solve a wide range of high-bandwidth networking needs.
Sun Trunking moves data even faster
Sun 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters give you the advantage of Sun Trunking support. Sun Trunking software is designed to aggregate Sun Ethernet adapter card ports into a single virtual link or trunk. The resulting aggregated "fat pipe" instantly increases your bandwidth and availability for higher data transfer rates.
Jumbo Frames: take the load off your CPUs
Sun Ethernet adapters feature Jumbo Frames support, allowing them to accommodate larger packets (up to 9Kbyte), which helps your CPUs handle more computations. At the same time, their hardware assist for TCP checksum generation and checking, packet parsing, and interrupt coalescing reduce CPU processing overhead.
Full duplex speeds
With full duplex capabilities, these adapters give you near line-rate data transfers in both directions, increasing throughput.
IEEE compliance you'd expect
Broad compliance gives you more flexibility and a long life. These adapters are fully compliant with IEEE 802.3ab/802.3z standards as well as IEEE 802.1Q VLAN (on Solaris 8 OS or later), and 802.1P/802.1D Priority Tagging and Quality of Service.
Secure through standards
Support for industry standard VLANs helps enhance network security by controlling access to specified portions of the network. A VLAN is a collection of network nodes that share the same broadcast domain regardless of their physical location or connection point in the network. Each VLAN serves as a logical workgroup with no physical barriers making it possible for users to share information and resources as though located on the same LAN. VLANs also allow a single physical LAN to be divided into multiple logical LANS.
