Interface Masters (News - Alert) Technologies, a provider of networking solutions, recently launched an addition to its 10 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter Card portfolio that is designed to work with the PCI (News - Alert)-express based Inline Networking Servers.

 

These include WAN Acceleration, UTM, and IPS Systems, and Security and Monitoring Appliances like Firewalls, IDS systems, and Analysis Probes. The Niagara 32714 server adapter is built as a low power Quad Port 10 Gbe NIC, with SFP+ pluggable modules suited for Multi-Mode and Single-Mode Fiber media. The underlying technology has been derived from Intel’s (News - Alert) latest Ethernet controller, the 82599.

 

The new Niagara 32714 10 GE NIC (News - Alert) has been built using the latest 10GE Intel 82599 Gigabit Ethernet Controller. This endows the device with PCI-e 2.0 support, low power 6.2W operation, and smart queue support optimized for multicore processors. There are 128 Transmit and Receive Queues. The 82599 also delivers Intel’s Virtualization Technology for Connectivity.

 

This helps cut down on I/O bottlenecks, enhances performance levels, and shrink latency. The Virtual Machine Device Queues help enhance throughput by transferring the data-sorting tasks from the virtual machine manager to the network administrator. The server adapter is embedded with specialized capabilities including layer 2 & 3 security like the IPSec & LinkSec, Intel I/OAT Acceleration v3.0, VLAN Tagging, Stripping and Packet Filtering, FCoE Transmit, Segmentation and transfer, and SNMP and RMON data counters. Intel’s 82599 also has a multitude of time manageability like the RMII, SMBus, PXE, iSCSI Boot. It has also received the Class A and CE accreditation from the FCC (News - Alert).

 

There are many other functionalities include in the Niagara that will make it highly suited for modern era data centers. It is able to support peak bandwidth traffic of upto 40 Gb/s in both directions on the PCI Express Bus and can handle a traffic load of 80 Gigabit per second. Its optimized form factor and low energy usage, along with the fact that it fully adheres to all RoHS standards, further enhances its appeal for data centers.

 

Free samples of the Niagara will be made available for evaluation in eligible projects by December 2009. Full production cycle will commence on January 2010.

 

Ben Askarinam, founder and CEO of Interface Masters Technologies commented, “The Niagara 32714 addresses the trends driving datacenter upgrades by including hardware optimization for I/O virtualization and support for unified networking, allowing local-area network, storage-area network, and Internet Protocol communications traffic to share the same Ethernet network.”