QLogic now offers a quad-port Network Daughter Card (NDC) with four 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10 Gb E) connectivity ports for Dell Power Edge 12G rack servers. This network adapter leverages QLogics long-standing industry leadership in Ethernet, providing high levels of performance, efficiency, and scalability for the enterprise data center. For more effective utilization of the 10 Gb E bandwidth, the QLogic 57840S-based NDC offers Switch Independent Partitioning, which enables the segmentation of each 10 Gb E port into two virtual ports with flexible allocation of bandwidth to each port. This allows IT organizations to improve resource utilization while lowering infrastructure & operational costs. Delivers full line-rate 10 Gb E performance across all ports Consolidates network traffic & storage traffic over converged 10 Gb E connections Enables provisioning of 10 Gb E ports for greater deployment flexibility through Switch Independent Partitioning Boosts host CPU efficiency with hardware offload for network (TCP/IP) & storage (FCo E/ i SCSI) data traffic Streamlines administrative tasks with Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) management application & integration into Dells embedded management framework (i DRAC7 & Lifecycle Controller) Improves reliability & interoperability
- leverages Broadcoms market-proven Ethernet architecture & software