Conserve valuable PCI Express server slots while adding multi-port fiber-optic connectivity to enhance network performance with the Intel PRO/1000 PF Dual Port Server Adapter. The PRO/1000 PF Dual Port Server Adapter is designed to provide high performance in multi-processor systems by efficiently balancing network loads across multiple Central Processing Units(CPUs) when used with Receive-Side Scaling from Microsoft or Scalable I/O on Linux .

• Intel lead-free technology
  
• Plug and play specification support
  
• Integrated media access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY)
  
• Interrupt moderation: Delivers increased performance while significantly reducing CPU utilization
  
• Compatible with x4, x8, and x16 full-height PCI Express slots
  
• Bus width: x4 lane PCI Express operable in x4, x8, x16 slots
  
• Bus speed (x4, encoded rate): 10 Gbps uni-directional; 10 Gbps bi-directional
  
• EEPROM-SPI and single EEPROM support
  

  Load balancing on multiple CPUs:

  
  
• Increases performance on multi-processor systems by efficiently balancing network loads across CPU cores when used with Receive-Side Scaling from Microsoft or Scalable I/O on Linux
  
  
  

  Advanced Software Features:

  
  
• Adapter fault tolerance (AFT)
  
• Switch fault tolerance (SFT)
  
• Adaptive load balancing (ALB)
  
• Fast EtherChannel (FEC)
  
• Gigabit EtherChannel (GEC)
  
• Teaming support: Scales up to 4 connections
  
• Test switch configuration
  
• PCIe Hot Plug/Active peripheral component interconnect (PCI)
  

Compatibility

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise, Datacenter (32- and 64-bit)
  
• Microsoft Windows 2000
  
• Red Hat Linux 2.4x or later (32- and 64-bit)
  
• FreeBSD 4.x or later
  
• Novell Netware 5.x, 6.x
  
• Sun Solaris x86, OS 8 and later
  
• SCO Open Server 5, OpenUNIX 8

Certifications & Standards

• RoHS compliant
  
• PCI Express 1.0a
  
• Hardware certifications FCC B, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, MIC
  

  IEEE:

  
  
• IEEE 802.3x
  
• IEEE 802.1Q
  
• IEEE 802.3z
  
• IEEE 802.1p
  

Platform Support

• PC
  
• Linux
  
• Unix
  
• Sun