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ORACLE DATA SHEET

SUN MULTITHREADED
QUAD GIGABIT ETHERNET
NETWORKING CARDS
KEY FEATURES

Oracle’s Sun Multithreaded Quad Gigabit Ethernet Networking
ENTERPRISE-CLASS
NETWORKING

Cards hosts four high-performance gigabit interfaces in a single

• Oracle multithreaded

PCIe slot to provide high bandwidth server-to-server and server-to-

networking technology
• Quad-port x8 PCIe low-profile

adapter and ExpressModule
• Cost-effective network

connectivity with four highperformance gigabit interfaces
in single PCIe slot
• Enhanced flexibility to provide

extremely high bandwidth
connectivity using multiple
cards per server
• Efficient throughput for large

packet sizes through low
overhead jumbo frame
support

switch connections while conserving valuable PCIe slots at a lower
cost per port. It extends CPU and OS parallelism to networking with
its support for Oracle’s Solaris Logical Domains (LDOMs),
hardware-based flow classification, and multiple Direct Memory
Access (DMA) channels. By reducing CPU processing loads with
packet parsing, hardware check sum generation, and interrupt
coalescing, the cards can also help increase server efficiency and
mitigate network congestion.

• Increased network reliability

with multipathing and link
aggregation features that help
enable failover and load
balancing
• Reduced CPU load through

hardware support for
checksum generation, packet
parsing and interrupt
coalescing
• Hardware-based flow

classification that extends OS
parallelism and virtualization
to networking
• RoHS-6 (lead-free) compliant

Sun Multithreaded Quad Gigabit Ethernet Networking Cards improve network throughput.

Protect Existing Investments
Compliant with IEEE 802.3 standards, the Sun Multithreaded Quad Gigabit Ethernet
Networking Cards can help protect investments in your existing infrastructure,
applications, and expertise while helping you to upgrade portions of your network to
higher network throughput. The interoperability can preserve your existing core
wiring infrastructure and help enable a cost-effective and seamless migration to
Gigabit Ethernet technology.
Deliver Greater Performance
The Sun Multithreaded Quad Gigabit Ethernet Networking Cards can help improve
network throughput as well as application performance through features that help

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