Intel® Data Direct I/O Technology is a platform technology that improves I/O data processing efficiency for data delivery and data consumption from I/O devices. With Intel DDIO, Intel® Server Adapters and controllers talk directly to the processor cache without a detour via system memory, reducing latency, increasing system I/O bandwidth, and reducing power consumption.
Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) involves natively (directly) sharing a single I/O resource between multiple virtual machines. SR-IOV provides a mechanism by which a Single Root Function (for example a single Ethernet Port) can appear to be multiple separate physical devices.
Flexible Port Partitioning (FPP) technology utilizes industry standard PCI SIG SR-IOV to efficiently divide your physical Ethernet device into multiple virtual devices, providing Quality of Service by ensuring each process is assigned to a Virtual Function and is provided a fair share of the bandwidth.
Wired
PCI Express
Fiber
1
1
QSFP+
3.0
40000 Mbit/s
IEEE 802.1Q,IEEE 802.1Qbg,IEEE 802.1as,IEEE 802.1p,IEEE 802.3,IEEE 802.3ad
10 Gigabit Ethernet, 40 Gigabit Ethernet
10000,40000 Mbit/s
40GBASE-SR4
Y
Y
Y
7 m
Intel® XL710
Black, Green
Y
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025890/network-and-i-o/ethernet-products.html
Y
0 - 55 °C
-40 - 70 °C
0 - 90%
8 GT/s
QSFP+ Direct Attach Copper Cable (Twinaxial)(1-7m) / 40GBASE-SR4 Optics also supported (Purchase Intel branded optics separately)
Server
Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Computing
Y
4096
Y
Y
Y
Y
8.0 GT/s, x8 Lane
N
Y
N
Y
Y
PCIe v3.0 (8.0 GT/s)
iSCSI, NFS
Q3'16
Copper
Server
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-briefs/ethernet-server-adapter-xl710-ocp-brief.pdf
Network Interface Card
Launched
64826846
700 Network Adapters (up to 40GbE)-700 Network Adapters (up to 40GbE)
96046
8517620090
5A991
NA
Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710
QSFP+ Direct Attach Copper Cable (Twinaxial)(1-7m) / 40GBASE-SR4 Optics also supported (Purchase Intel branded optics separately)
OCP form factor (Mezz 2.0 Design Spec)
Intel 10 Gigabit server adapter
700 Series Network Adapters (up to 40GbE)