Network Interface Cards

Intel® Ethernet 800 Series improves application efficiency and network performance with innovative and versatile capabilities that optimize high-performance server workloads such as NFV, storage, HPC-AI, and hybrid cloud. With its high 10/25GbE port density, the E810-XXVDA4 adapter is designed to optimize high-performance system workloads for Cloud and Communications.

Performance optimizations and port density for Cloud and Storage deployments

• Four 25GbE SFP28 ports deliver multiple high- speed connections
• Application Device Queues (ADQ) provides dedicated traffic queues to reduce latency and increase application throughput
• Dynamic Device Personalization enables protocol- specific traffic acceleration to improve packet processing efficiency and reduce CPU overhead
• iWARP and RoCEv2 support provides high-speed, low-latency, high-throughput connectivity for Cloud storage targets

Accelerated packet processing and PCIe slot savings for Communications workloads

• Four 25GbE SFP28 ports deliver greater bandwidth in slot-constrained RAN systems
• Enhanced Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support increases packet processing speeds
• Dynamic Device Personalization enables protocol- specific traffic acceleration and reduces CPU overhead for emerging high-bandwidth workloads
• IEEE 1588 PTP v2 Precision Time Protocol support enables precise clock synchronization across 5G

Flexible Configurations

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

Intel® Ethernet 800 Series network adapters improve application efficiency and network performance with innovative and versatile capabilities. With its high 10/25GbE port density, the E810-XXVDA4 adapter is designed to optimize high-performance system workloads for Cloud and Communications.

Performance optimizations and port density for Cloud and Storage deployments

• Four 25GbE SFP28 ports deliver multiple high- speed connections
• Application Device Queues (ADQ) provides dedicated traffic queues to reduce latency and increase application throughput
• Dynamic Device Personalization enables protocol-specific traffic acceleration to improve packet processing efficiency and reduce CPU overhead
• iWARP and RoCEv2 support provides high-speed, low-latency, high-throughput connectivity for Cloud storage targets

Accelerated packet processing and PCIe slot savings for Communications workloads

• Four 25GbE SFP28 ports deliver greater bandwidth in slot-constrained RAN systems
• Enhanced Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)support increases packet processing speeds
• Dynamic Device Personalization enables protocol- specific traffic acceleration and reduces CPU overhead for emerging high-bandwidth workloads
• IEEE 1588 PTP v2 Precision Time Protocol support enables precise clock synchronization across 5G

Flexible Configurations

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

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.

Increase Throughput and Lower Latency

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) provides high throughput and low-latency performance for modern high-speed Ethernet by eliminating three major sources of networking overhead: TCP/ IP stack process, memory copies, and application context switches. Intel Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters support all Ethernet-based storage transport, including iWARP, RoCEv2, and NVMe over Fabric.

RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet): RoCEv2 substitutes the InfiniBand physical layer and data link layer with Ethernet, operates on top of UDP/IP, and is routable over IP networks.

Intel® Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters improve application efficiency and network performance with innovative and versatile capabilities. With four 25GbE SFP28 ports and key performance optimizations, the E810-XXVDA4 for OCP 3.0 supports solutions across Cloud, Enterprise, and Communications.

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 optimizations and port density for Cloud and Storage deployments

• Four 25GbE SFP28 ports deliver multiple high- speed connections
• Application Device Queues (ADQ) provides dedicated traffic queues to reduce latency and increase application throughput
• Dynamic Device Personalization enables protocol- specific traffic acceleration to improve packet processing efficiency and reduce CPU overhead
• iWARP and RoCEv2 support provides high-speed, low-latency, high-throughput connectivity for Cloud storage targets

Accelerated packet processing and PCIe slot savings for Communications workloads

• Four 25GbE ports deliver greater bandwidth in slot-constrained RAN systems
• Enhanced Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)support increases packet processing speeds
• Dynamic Device Personalization enables protocol- specific traffic acceleration and reduces CPU overhead for emerging high-bandwidth workloads
• IEEE 1588 PTP v2 support enables precise clock synchronization across 5G

Flexible Configurations ?

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

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-XXVDA4T, 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 E810XXVDA4TGG1 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.