Network & Communication

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.

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. E810-XXVDA4T Product Brief Intel® Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters

Flexible Configurations

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

By adding photonics capability to world-leading silicon manufacturing, Intel® is developing a new class of high-speed optical connectivity products.

Intel® Silicon Photonics combines the manufacturing scale and capability of silicon with the power of light onto a single chip. We build silicon-based components that transmit and receive optical signals, moving vast amounts of information at 100 to 1600 Gigabits per second over long distances of up to several kilometers of fiber optic cables.

Today, our pluggable modules connect Ethernet switches in large data centers. As demand for bandwidth increases, silicon photonics co-packaged with switch ASICs will provide the band-width density necessary to scale future data center networks.

• New high-speed I/O connectivity based on photonics
• Intel® wafer-scale manufacturing with hybrid laser
• Platform for future high-density switch integration

What is Silicon Photonics?

Silicon Photonics is a combination of two of the most important inventions of the 20th century the silicon-integrated circuit and the semiconductor laser. With this combination, light has been integrated onto Intel's silicon platform, taking advantage of the bandwidth and reach of optical connectivity, using the scale and technology capability of silicon.

This new technology can reduce cost of ownership and improve the performance of future data center architectures by:

• Enabling high-bandwidth, software-configurable access to compute and storage
• Permitting software defined infrastructure (SDI) deployments to decouple hardware and software resources for disaggregated data centers
• Allowing optical connectivity that interoperates with other technologies, such as Ethernet switches,Smart-NICs, and FPGAs

The Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710 addresses the demanding needs of an agile data center by providing unmatched features for both server and network virtualization, flexibility for LAN and SAN networks, and proven, reliable performance.

The Intel® Ethernet 700 Series Network Adapters. These adapters are the foundation for server connectivity, providing broad interoperability, critical performance optimizations, and increased agility for Communications, Cloud, and Enterprise IT network solutions.

• Interoperability - Multiple speeds and media types for broad compatibility backed by extensive testing and validation.
• Optimization - Intelligent offloads and accelerators to unlock network performance in servers with Intel® Xeon® processors.
• Agility - Both Kernel and Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) drivers for scalable packet processing.

Intel® Ethernet 700 Series delivers networking performance across a wide range of network port speeds through intelligent offloads, sophisticated packet processing, and quality open source drivers.

All Intel® Ethernet 700 Series Network Adapters include these feature-rich technologies:

Flexible and Scalable I/O for Virtualized Infrastructures

Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT), delivers outstanding I/O performance in virtualized server environments.

I/O bottlenecks are reduced through intelligent offloads, enabling near-native performance and VM scalability. These offloads include Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) and Flexible Port Partitioning using SR-IOV with a common Virtual Function driver for networking traffic per Virtual Machine (VM). Host-based features supported include:

VMDQ for Emulated Path: VMDQ, enables a hypervisor to represent a single network port as multiple network ports that can be assigned to the individual VMs. Traffic handling is offloaded to the network controller, delivering the benefits of port partitioning with little to no administrative overhead by the IT staff.

SR-IOV for Direct Assignment: Adapter-based isolation and switching for various virtual station instances enables optimal CPU usage in virtualized environments.

• Up to 128 virtual functions (VFs), each VF can support a unique and separate data path for I/O related functions within the PCI Express hierarchy.
• Use of SR-IOV with a networking device, for example, allows the bandwidth of a single port (function) to be partitioned into smaller slices that can be allocated to specific VMs or guests, via a standard interface.

Intel® Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function (Intel® Ethernet AVF): Customers deploying mass-scale VMs or containers for their network infrastructure now have a common VF driver. This driver eases SR-IOV hardware upgrades or changes, preserves base-mode functionality in hardware and software, and supports an advanced set of features in the Intel® Ethernet 700 Series.

Enhanced Network Virtualization Overlays (NVO)

Network virtualization has changed the way networking is done in the data center, delivering accelerations across a wide range of tunneling methods.