Introduction - Advantech MIC-3666 User Manual

Dual 10 gigabit ethernet xmc

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Introduction

The MIC-3666 is a low power, dual-port 10 GbE XMC, with SFP+ pluggable modules

for multi-mode and single-mode fiber media and is based on the Intel® 82599ES 10

Gigabit Ethernet controller. The XMC provides a high performance PCIe x8 interface

at 5 Gb/s per lane at an outstanding low power dissipation of less than 10 W. Support

for Intel's offloading and platform enhancement features yields maximum network

throughput while preserving valuable CPU cycles for application processing.

The MIC-3666 features an Intel® 82599 which provides Intel® Virtualization Technol-

ogy for Connectivity (VT-c) including Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) and

PCI SIG compliant Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), helping to reduce I/O bot-

tlenecks, boost throughput, and reduce latency. Where virtualization is required,

VMDqs improve performance by offloading the data-sorting burden from the virtual

machine manager (VMM) to the network controller. The MIC-3666's specialized fea-

tures include Layer 2 & 3 security with IPSec & LinkSec; Intel® I/OAT Acceleration

Technology v3.0; VLAN tagging, stripping and packet filtering; and TCP, iSCSI, and

Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offload.

MIC-3666 User Manual

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