Common Key features: - Sing Port 1000SX (850NM) Support PCI Express Base Specification 2.0 (5 GTs) - High performance reliability and low power use in Intel 82580 Quad integrated MAC + PHY and SERDES chip Controllers - Ultra deep packet buffer per channel lowers CPU utilization - Hardware acceleration that can offload tasks from the host processor. The Controllers can offload TCP/UDP/IP checksum calculations and TCP segmentation - Server class reliability availability and performance features: - Link Aggregation and Load Balancing - Switch dependent: 802.3ad (LACP) Generic Trunking ( GEC / FEC) - Switch and NIC Independent - Failover - Priority queuing –802.1p layer 2 priority encoding - Virtual LANs –802.1q VLAN tagging - Jumbo Frame (9.5KB) - 802.x flow control - Multicast/ broadcast Packet replication - Statistics for SNMP MIB II Ethernet like MIB and Ethernet MIB (802.3z Clause 30) - Supports Vital Product Data (VPD) - LEDs indicators for link/Activity status