With PCI Express* V2.0 (5 GT/s) support

Enables customers to take full advantage of 1 GbE by providing maximum bi-directional throughput per port on a single quad-port adapter

Halogen-free (copper)

Leadership in an environmentally-friendly ecosystem

Low-profile (dual and quad port copper; dual-port fiber) and standard height (quad-port fiber)

Enables higher bandwidth and throughput from standard and low-profile PCIe slots and servers

DMA coalescing

Reduces platform power consumption by coalescing, aligning, and synchronizing DMA

Enables synchronizing port activity and power management of memory, CPU and RC internal circuitry

Intel® iSCSI remote boot for Windows*, Linux*, and VMware*

Enables system boot up via iSCSI

Eight transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) queue pairs per port

Provides additional network management capability

Flexible Port Partitioning: 32 Virtual Functions on Quad-port

Virtual Functions on dual-port Virtual Functions (VFs) appear as Ethernet Controllers in Linux* OSes that can be assigned to VMs, kernel processes or teamed using the Linux* Bonding Drivers

Support for PCI-SIG SR-IOV specification

Up to 8 Virtual Functions per Port

Rx/Tx round-robin scheduling

Assigns time slices in equal portions in circular order for Rx/Tx for balanced bandwidth allocation