Specifications
Manufacturer: Dell Technologies
Manufacturer Part Number: 540-BBRG
Manufacturer Website Address: http://www.dell.com
Brand Name: Dell
Product Series: X550
Product Name: Intel X550 10Gigabit Ethernet Card
Marketing Information:

Highlights

• Offers 10GbE Ethernet
• Support demanding workloads for enterprise, cloud, and telecommunication service providers and data centers

Overview

The Intel X550 Dual Port 10G Base-T Adapter, Low Profile Ethernet is is validated and optimized on Intel Xeon processors and is backward Compatible with 1000BASE-T. It has an integrated MAC + 10GBASE-T PHYs, Single-Chip Solution and is designed for Multi-Core Processors: MSI/MSI-X and Direct Cache Access, Flow Director, up to 128 Tx/Rx physical queues per port. It is the best choice for virtualized servers, providing advanced features including Intel Virtualization Technology for Connectivity (VT-c), Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) and Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) up to 64 VFs per port, NVGRE and VXLAN stateless offloads delivering amazing performance.

• Built to enable Network Virtualization and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
• Unparalleled supply line, customer support, and warranty
• Designed to support demanding workloads for enterprise, cloud, and telecommunication service providers and data centers.
• Intel is the #1 Ethernet vendor- having shipped over 1 billion Ethernet ports

Product Type: 10Gigabit Ethernet Card
Interfaces/Ports
Host Interface: PCI Express
Total Number of Ports: 2
Number of Network (RJ-45) Ports: 2
Media & Performance
Media Type Supported: Twisted Pair
Network & Communication
Network Technology: 10GBase-T
Physical Characteristics
Form Factor: Plug-in Card
Miscellaneous
Device Supported: Server