IBM Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for System x At-A-Glance Manual page 3

Supported transceivers and direct -attach cables
The adapter has two empty SFP+ cages that support either SFP+ SR transceivers or twin-ax
direct-attached copper cables as listed in Table 2 and Table 3 respectively.
Table 2. Supported transceivers
Description
Optical Transceivers
IBM 10 GbE SW SFP+ Transceiver
Brocade 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver
QLogic 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver
IBM 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver
IBM/Brocade 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver
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IBM/BNT 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver
Cisco SFP-10G-SR*
Avago AFBR-703SDZ-ELX*
Finisar FTLX8571D3BCL-EM*
* These SFP+ SR transceivers are non-IBM parts that have been validated by Emulex for use with this adapter
Table 3. Supported direct-attach cables
Description
Passive DAC/Twinax cables
1 m IBMPassive DAC-SFP+ Cable
3 m IBM Passive DAC-SFP+ Cable
5 m IBM Passive DAC-SFP+ Cable
8.5 m IBM Passive DAC-SFP+ Cable
Features
The Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II and Emulex 10GbE Integrated Virtual Fabric Adapter II have
the following features and benefits:
Dual-channel, 10 Gbps Ethernet controller
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Near line-rate 10 Gbps performance
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2 SFP+ empty cages to support either SFP+ SR or twin-ax copper connections
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SFP+ SR link is with SFP+ SR optical module with LC connectors
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SFP+ twin-ax copper link is with SFP+ direct attached copper module/cable
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TCIP/IP stateless offloads
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TCP chimney offload
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Hardware parity, CRC, ECC, and other advanced error checking
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Emulex 10GbE Virtual Fabric Adapter II for IBM System x
Part number
49Y8578
49Y4216
49Y4218
44W4408
44W2411
46C3447
SFP-10G-SR
AFBR-703SDZ-ELX
FTLX8571D3BCL-EM
Part number
90Y9427
90Y9430
90Y9433
90Y9436
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