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Features and Benefits

Gigabit Wi-Fi

Intel® Wireless-AC 9260 is the first Intel Wi-Fi module that provides Gigabit Wi-Fi speeds. When using 160MHz channels, it can deliver up to 1.73Gbps maximum theoretical throughput, nearly 12x faster than baseline 1x1 BGN (150Mbps) Wi-Fi used in today's PCs.

Bluetooth® 5

Bluetooth® 5 provides 4x the range over Bluetooth® 4.2 Low Energy with the same power, doubles the transmit speed and improves the broadcasting functionality. This translates to better coverage, improved location-based services and simpler connectivity between devices.

Optimized for Intel Platforms

Recommended wireless solution for 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processors and ensures your business is protected from the latest threats with wireless support for 8th Generation Intel® vPro™ processors. Enables Intel® Authenticate Solution Bluetooth® proximity usage models.

MU-MIMO

Downlink MU-MIMO allows an access point to simultaneously transmit data to multiple clients and can improve overall downlink network capacity by up to 3x.

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Intel® Ethernet SFP28 Optics are an excellent choice for high-speed communications equipment where extraordinary performance and reliability are essential. These hot-pluggable optical modules consume low-power and are offered in the extended temperature range.

When used with Intel® Ethernet Network Adapters with SFP28 connectivity, these optics provide more secure connections for virtualization, flexibility for LAN and SAN networking, and consistently reliable performance.

Fiber optics are more immune to harsh environmental factors. The light used for data transmission does not carry an electrical current so it cannot be impacted by electrical transmissions or radio frequency interference. Also, light has a superior signal strength that is near impervious to unwanted network taps.

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Nearly 3X higher peak data rates and up to 4X capacity

The Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (Gig+) adapter is a CRF (Companion RF)
module that supports the new IEEE 802.11ax standard - Wi-Fi 6
technology and is Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6™. The product supports 2x2
Wi-Fi 6 technology, including new features such as UL and DL OFDMA
and 1024QAM, delivering data rates of up to 2.4Gbps and increased
network capacity as well as Bluetooth® 5.2 support. These new feat-
ures deliver a significant improvement in user experience in dense
deployments, supporting fast uploads and downloads, lower latency,
and longer battery life compared to solutions supporting 802.11ac.
Combined with Intel® Core™ processors and exceptional Intel wireless
innovations, the Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX201 module can provide Gigabit
wireless speed and dramatically improve your connected experience
at home, work, or on the go.

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Improve application efficiency and network performance with innovative and versatile capabilities that optimize server workloads such as Network Functions Virtualizations (NFV), storage, HPC-AI and hybrid cloud.

The OCP NIC 3.0 specification defines a standardized design for a new generation of network adapters. Simple and straightforward form factors, clear manageability requirements, and improved serviceability help simplify deployment for current and emerging capabilities.

Performance for Cloud Applications

Delivers the bandwidth and increased application throughput required for demanding cloud workloads including edge services, web servers, database applications, caching servers, and storage targets.

• Application Device Queues (ADQ) improves application response time predictability using advanced traffic-steering technology
• Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) enhances packet classification capabilities, to deliver up to 3x throughput improvement for some cloud workloads
• Supports both RDMA iWARP and RoCEv2 for high-speed, low-latency connectivity to storage targets

Optimizations for Communications Workloads

Provides packet classification and sorting optimizations for high-bandwidth network and communications workloads, including mobile core, 5G RAN, and network appliances.

• Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) supports existing and new communications-specific protocols improving packet-processing efficiency up to 3x for some NFV workloads
• IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) v2 support enables precise clock synchronization across the 5G RAN deployments
• Enhanced Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support increases packet-processing speeds

Versatile Port Configurations with EPCT

E810-CQDA1 and -CQDA2 adapters for OCP 3.0 support a wide range of system configurations to meet customer needs and workload requirements. The many port and speed combinations available simplify validation and deployment.

All 800 Series products include these technologies | Greater Predictability at Scale

As modern data centers scale, a key challenge is to provide scalable, predictable application-level performance. Application Device Queues (ADQ) technology improves performance scalability and predictability by dedicating queues to key workloads, delivering predictable high performance through dramatically reduced jitter.

Increasing the predictability of application response times by lowering jitter enables more compute servers to be assigned to a task and can allow more users to access the system, providing a better end-user experience. Even applications that are not large scale can benefit from higher consistency, enabling them to meet service-level agreements (SLAs) more easily.

ADQ enables application-specific data steering, signaling, and rate limiting using an optimized application thread to device data path. This ability to dedicate queues and shape network traffic not only increases performance, it reduces latency and improves throughput.

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Designed with the bridgeless Intel® Ethernet Controller I350, this 1GbE adapter delivers performance through industry leading enhancements for both virtualized and iSCSI networking environments.

A suite of hardware assists improves overall system performance by lowering the I/O overhead in virtualized environments. iSCSI simplifies SAN connectivity by eliminating the need for SAN- specific adapters or switches.

This adapter also includes power management technologies such as Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) and DMA Coalescing (DMAC). With advanced Power Management Technologies, customers can configure power options on the adapter and more effectively manage their power consumption.

The Intel® Ethernet I350 Server Adapters includes these featured technologies:

Flexible I/O Virtualization

The Intel® Ethernet I350 adapters include Intel® Virtualization Technology for connectivity (Intel VT-c) to deliver I/O virtualization and Quality of Service (QoS) features designed directly into the I350 controller on the adapter. I/O virtualization advances network connectivity models used in today's servers to more efficient models by providing Flexible Port Partitioning (FPP), multiple Rx/Tx queues, and on-controller QoS functionality that can be used in both virtual and non-virtual server deployments.

By taking advantage of the PCI-SIG SR-IOV specification, Intel® Ethernet products enable Flexible Port Partitioning (FPP). With FPP, virtual controllers can be used by the Linux host directly and/or assigned to virtual machines. With this port partitioning, administrators can create up to eight dedicated networks on a single Ethernet port for use in baremetal and virtualized server deployments.

In a bare-metal Linux server, host processes can be assigned to dedicated network resources to provide traffic isolation and balanced bandwidth allocation.

In a virtualized environment, a VM can be assigned to a virtual controller to reduce the CPU overhead seen when using a software-based network bridge, by offloading network traffic management to the Ethernet controller silicon.

Scalable iSCSI Performance

iSCSI uses Ethernet to carry storage traffic, extending the familiarity and simplicity of Ethernet to storage networking, without the need for SAN-specific adapters or switches. Intel® Ethernet adapters, with built-in iSCSI initiators for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi platforms, provide a simple, dependable, cost-effective way to connect to LANs and iSCSI SANs.

Intel® Ethernet adapters include hardware-based iSCSI acceleration features that do not require offloading to a proprietary TCP/IP stack. iSCSI acceleration uses large send offload, Receive Side Coalescing and transmit send offloads to help reduce latency and lower CPU utilization. To improve efficiency, MSI-X, Receive-side Scaling and Intel® Ethernet Flow Director, scale I/O processing across multiple CPU cores. Direct memory access (DMA), direct cache access (DCA) and header splitting improve network data processing efficiency, and data center bridging (DCB) supports multiple traffic classes that can be prioritized for iSCSI traffic.

These built-in initiators are broadly tested using multiple generations of operating systems, storage systems, and OS tools to help ensure reliability and ease of use. Standardizing on Intel Ethernet for iSCSI allows administrators to use a single initiator, TCP/IP stack, and a common set of management tools and IT policies.

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Maximize speed, latency, and reliability benefits of Wi-Fi 6 across new radio frequencies free from legacy device interference

The Intel® Wi-Fi 6E AX210 (Gig+) adapter is designed to support Wi-Fi 6E technology and related Wi-Fi Alliance certification. The product supports dual-stream Wi-Fi in the 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz bands as well as Bluetooth® 5.2. It also supports Wi-Fi 6 R2 features, including UL MU-MIMO. These new features maximize the benefits of Wi-Fi 6, including Gigabit speed, ultra-low latencies, and enhanced reliability benefits across new radio frequencies exclusive to Wi-Fi 6E devices, and deliver a significant improvement in user experience in dense deployments. Combined with Intel® Core™ processors and exceptional Intel wireless innovations, the Intel® Wi-Fi 6E AX210 module can dramatically improve your connected experience at home, work, or on the go.

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Increasing growth in 5G RAN and edge deployments is driving demand for high-precision timing synchronization across the network. Meet these challenging requirements head-on with a standards-based PCIe adapter that provides greater flexibility at a lower price point than single-purpose timing appliances.

Most 5G RAN deployments use 1588 PTP, SyncE, or both to ensure required timing synchronization. Both of these synchronization methods are supported by the E810-CQDA2T, while additional hardware enhancements ensure reliability and accuracy, and provide greater flexibility and simplicity for timing synchronization deployments.

Support for synchronization

Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) delivers frequency synchronization over Ethernet between SyncE-enabled devices. Extends traditional telecom timing architecture to commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Ethernet solutions.

IEEE 1588 PTP enables synchronization of systems on a network through the transfer of timing data (including frequency, phase, and time of day) with hardware timestamping in PTP packets.

Onboard high-precision oscillator maintains high accuracy during holdover (when the synchronization source is not available), providing up to four hours with less than +/- 1.5 microsecond of phase error.

Hardware features for deployment flexibility

Optional GNSS mezzanine enables integrated support for frequency, phase, and time-of-day synchronization with Global Navigation Satellite Systems, including GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, BeiDou, and QZSS. Available on E810CQDA2TGG1 only. Subminiature version B (SMB) coaxial connector allows connection to an external active GNSS antenna.

Dual external SubMiniature version A (SMA) coaxial connectors allow connection to external 1PPS timing sources, such as GNSS signaling, devices and to timing recipients, enabling the network adapter to act as a grandmaster and as a timing source for other equipment. The output capability provides a way to audit the phase accuracy of each node.

U.FL connectors, embedded coaxial connectors, allow 1PPS signal connectivity between the adapter and motherboard or another adapter. Dedicated send and receive U.FL ports are embedded on the adapter.

Flexible Configurations

Intel® Ethernet Optics, and specification-compliant Active Optical Cables and Direct Attach Cables, can support multiple configurations.

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