Major Components Of The Expansion Card; High-Speed Switch Module - IBM NetXen 10Gb2-Port Ethernet Expansion Card Installation Manual

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Major components of the expansion card

The NX2031 chip provides a PCI-Express local bus interface and two

completely independent 10 Gb serial Ethernet ports. Each port has a RISC

processor, an integrated serializer/deserializer (SERDES), a receive DMA

sequencer, a frame buffer, a five-channel DMA controller, and an internal

memory interface in a single-chip solution.

You must install a compatible high-speed switch module (HSSM), such as a

Nortel 10 Gb Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter, in the BladeCenter

unit when you install a NetXen 10 Gb 2-Port Ethernet Expansion Card in the

blade server. For additional information, see Chapter 2, "Installing an

expansion card," on page 7.

For information about the types of compatible HSSMs for the IBM BladeCenter

unit, contact your IBM marketing representative or authorized reseller. For a

list of supported optional devices for the BladeCenter unit, see

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/.

For details about Nortel HSSM installation, configuration, and use, see the

Nortel documentation that comes with the Nortel HSSM. This documentation

is listed under "Related documentation" on page 4.

NetXen 10 Gb 2-Port Ethernet Expansion Card: Installation Guide

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