Overview
Supermicro's AOC-NXB-10GXSR is a 10GbE, low profile PCI Express card based on NetXen's NX2031. It is a high performance layer 2 NIC that can support offload of TCP/IP, iSCSI and RDMA protocols, significantly improving throughput of servers, server appliances and storage platforms, while reducing host CPU utilization. This allows overall system performance to scale dramatically.
The AOC-NXB-10GXSR is a highly integrated, fully programmable Intelligent NIC device designed to offload and accelerate processing tasks.
Key Features
- Intelligent NIC designed to offload and accelerate processing tasks
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe Adapter with pluggable XFP optical interface
- Low profile PCIe card enables usage in all server form factors including 1U rack servers
- Increased application throughput and reduced host CPU utilization due to complete protocol offload
- Reduced cabling and support costs with a single 10GbE link
- Optimal use of I/O slots - 10GbE with multiple protocol support
- Performance scalability for consolidated server environments
- Reduced latency - better system performance for clustered applications
- Investment protection - full programmability allows changes to protocols to be implemented in F/W avoiding expensive hardware upgrades
- Future proofing - 10GbE with the flexibility of field upgradeable features - new features can be added via F/W upgrades in the field
- Improved reliability and error handling benefits of PCIe
- Common drivers across all Intelligent NICs in the family - reducing TCO