The HP Flex Fabric 10 Gb 2-port 554FLR-SFP+ Adapter provides Ethernet functionality or Ethernet & i SCSI or Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCo E) or Flex Fabric connectivity in a Flexible LOM form factor designed for select HP Pro Liant Gen 8 rack servers. It reduces operating costs by reducing the number of adapters & cables needed. It also optimizes network & storage traffic with hardware acceleration & offloads for stateless TCP/IP, TCP Offload Engine (TOE), & Fibre Channel.