About the Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe EM

The Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe ExpressModule (EM) is an x8 lane PCI Express (PCIe) 10-Gigabit Ethernet module that uses the Sun ASIC with XFP-based 10-Gigabit Ethernet optics. This EM requires an optical transceiver, either Sun part number X5558A SR (Short Reach) XFP Transceiver for the ExpressModule, or Sun part number X5560A-z LR (Long Reach) XFP Transceiver for the Express Module.

Feature Overview

The Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe EM provides the following features:

  • Two full-duplex 10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces that use a small form factor 10-Gigabit Ethernet pluggable (XFP) optical transceiver with duplex LC fiber connector

  • IEEE 802.3ae 2002-compliant

  • Uses Sun ASIC and software for innovative throughput network design

  • Networking I/O virtualization supporting Solaris LDOMS 1.0 software

  • Hardware-based flow classification for extending parallelism and virtualization to networking

  • Up to 16 receive DMA channels and up to 24 transmit DMA channels, multiple receive and transmit descriptor rings, and dedicated networking hardware resources (DMA, interrupts, buffer, and more) for each thread or strand

  • CPU/thread affinity and CPU load balancing at L1, L2, L3, and L4

  • Jumbo frames support

  • IPv4, IPv6, and IPMP support

  • TCP and UDP checksum and CRC32C support

  • IEEE 802.1Q VLAN support

For more information, see the Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe ExpressModule User's Guide (Sun part number: 820-1606) at http://docs.sun.com.