Intel XXV710 based NIC PCIe 3.0 x8 Dual Port 25GbE Open SFP28

The Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 delivers excellent performance for 25GbE connectivity that is backwards compatible with 1/10GbE, simplifying migration to higher speeds. These adapters are the foundation for server connectivity, providing broad interoperability, critical performance optimisations and increased agility for Communications, Cloud, and Enterprise IT network solutions.

• PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0, x8
• IEEE 802.3by and 25GEthernet.org specification compliance
• Network Virtualization offloads including VxLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE, MPLS, and VxLAN-GPE 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) optimised 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
• Adaptive link establishment enables increased interoperability with other 25GbE capable switches and host controllers

System Requirements

• Windows Client: Windows 11/10
• Windows Server: 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 25/10GbE adapters
• Meets the IEEE802.3by and 25Gthernet.org standard
• Adaptive link supports interworking with other 25GbE switches and host controllers
• 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
• Supports for optional End-to-End CRC generation and checking
• Supports Maximum number of VMDQ 256 per device
• Supports number of queues 1538
• IEEE802.3x flow control support
• IEEE802.3Q VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, with stripping and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags
• Jumbo Frame support 9728 bytes