The NC552SFP is an eight lane PCI Express (PCIe) 10 Gigabit network solution offering optimal throughput. This PCI Express adapter ships with two SFP+ (Small Form-factor Pluggable) cages suitable for connecting to Direct Attach Cable (DAC) or an SR fiber module supporting fiber optic cabling. The NC552SFP ships with advanced server features that suits Pro Liant customers expectations, such as support for TCP checksum & segmentation, large send & large receive offload capability, VLAN tagging, IPv 4 & IPv 6, teaming for failover & load balancing. The NC552SFP is easy to install & configure, & can be used in either standard or low profile slots.