Dell® 540-BBRN alternative Intel XL710 NIC PCIe 3.0 x8 Dual Port 40GbE QSFP+

The dual port Ethernet Converged Network Adapter 540-BBRN is an energy efficient 40GbE adapter that is backwards compatible with 10GbE. These network adapters are the foundation for server connectivity, providing broad interoperability, critical performance optimizations, and increased agility for Communications, Cloud, and Enterprise IT network solutions.

• PCI Express (PCIe) v3.0, x8
• Supports 4 x 10GbE, 1 x 40GbE or 2 x 40GbE configurations
• Exceptional low power adapters
• Network Virtualization offloads including VxLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE, MPLS, and VxLANGPE with Network Service Headers (NSH)
• Intel Ethernet Flow Director for hardware based application traffic steering
• Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) enables increased packet processing efficiency for NFV and cloud deployments
• Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) optimized for efficient packet processing
• Excellent small packet performance for network appliances and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
• Intelligent offloads to enable high performance on servers with Intel Xeon processors
• I/O virtualization innovations for maximum performance in a virtualized server

System Requirements

• Windows Server: 2008 R2/2012/2012 R2/2016/ 2019/2022
• Linux: RHEL9.1 & 8.7, SLES15 SP4, SLES12 SP5, Ubuntu*22.04 LTS/20.04 LTS, Debian*11, FreeBSD*13 /12.3

Specification

• PCI-Express Host interface specification v3.0 x8 and higher
• Supports the PCI Bus Power Management specification and section 5 of the PCI Express Base Specification
• PCI-Express lanes: x8 
• Dual-port 40GbE adapters
• Network Virtualization offloads including VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve and Network Service Headers
• Intel Ethernet Flow director for hardware based application traffic steering
• Intelligent offloads to enable high performance with Intel Xeon processor based servers
• Packet checksum offloads: Calculates IP, UDP, TCP and Stream transmission Protocol checksums for insertion into transmitted packets and for integrity checking on received packets
• Includes support for UDP and TCP checksums in both IPv4 and IPv6 data grams
• I/O virtualization innovations for maximum performance in a virtualized server
• Support for optional End-to-End CRC generation and checking
• Supports up to 1024 LAN queue sets (768 typically available)
• Supports up to 384 VSIs with average of two TCs allocated per VSI
• Supports up to 16VEB/VEPA switching components
• Supports Network standard: IEE802.3 40GBASE-SR4, 40GBASE-LR4, 40GBASE-CR4
• Supports the PXE remote boot standard and Internet small Computer system interface