Supermicro AOC-SGP-I4, quad-port Gigabit PCI-e x4 LP NIC Card, Intel® i350

The Compact and Feature-Rich 4-port Ethernet Controller
With the AOC-SGP-i4, Supermicro has extended the boundaries of Ethernet technology to create the most compact and
feature-packed 4-port Ethernet controller in the market, and allow it to fit in the smallest space in the ever-densifying server
system. With ultra-small footprint and rich of power management technology feature set, the AOC-SGP-i4 represents the next
step in the Gigabit Ethernet networking evolution for enterprise and data center environments
Key Features
• 3.9-inch Length, Low-Profile Standard Form Factor
• PCI Express 2.1 (2.5GT/s or 5GT/s)
• 4 RJ-45 ports
• Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (I/O AT)
• VMDq, Next-Generation VMDq, and
PC-SIG SR-IOV for Virtualized Environments
• Jumbo Frame Support up to 9.5KB
• IEEE 802.3az – Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
• Low Power Consumption (5W Typical)
• iSCSI Remote Boot Support
• Flexible I/O Virtualization and Quality of Service (QoS)
• PXE Boot Support
• RoHS compliant 6/6
Specifications
• General
– Intel® i350 GbE controller
– Compact size low-profile standard form factor
– PCI-E 2.1 x4 (2.5GT/s or 5GT/s) interface
– Quad RJ-45 connectors
– Intel® PROSet Utility for Windows® Device Manager
– Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (I/O AT)
– Power consumption: about 5W
• Ethernet Features
– IEEE 802.3 auto-negotiation for speed, duplex, and flow control
– IEEE 802.3x and 802.3z compliant flow control support
– Automatic cross-over detection function (MDI/MDI-X)
– 1Gb/s Ethernet IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, 802.3ab PHY specifications
Compliant
– IEEE 1588 protocol and 802.1AS implementation
• Power Management and Efficiency
– IEEE 802.3az – Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) which reduces power
consumption of the PHY by about 50%
– DMA Coalescing reduces platform power consumption
– Active State Power Management (ASPM) support
– LAN disable function
– MAC Power Management controls
– Low Power Link Up – Link Speed Control
• Virtualization Features
– VM to VM Packet forwarding (Packet Loopback)
– Eight TX and RX queue pairs per port to support VMWare NetQueue
and Microsoft VMQ
– Flexible Port Partitioning: 32 Virtual Functions
– PC-SIG SR-IOV implementation
– IEEE 802.1q VLAN support
– IEEE 802.1q advanced packet filtering
• Performance Features
– TCP/UDP, IPv4 and IPv6 checksum offloads to improve CPU usage
– Low Latency Interrupts
– Tx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4, IPv6) increases throughput and
lowers processor usage
– Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for Windows environment, Scalable I/O for
Linux environments
– Jumbo Frames support up to 9.5K Bytes
– Intelligent interrupt generation
• Remote Boot Options
– Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support
– iSCSI remote boot for Windows, Linux, and VMware
• OS Support
– Windows® XP SP3, Vista SP2, 7 SP1 2003 SP2, 2008 SP2, 2008 R2S
– RedHat EL 5.5, 6.0; SuSe SLES 10 SP3, 11 SP1
– FreeBSD 8.0
– VMware ESX 4.0, 4.1, 5.0
– Xen
• Cables Support
– RJ-45 Category-5/5e up to 100m
• Operating Conditions
– Operating temperature: 0°C to 55°C (32°F to 131°F)
– Storage temperature: -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F)
• Physical Dimensions
– Card PCB dimensions: 9.91cm (3.90in) x 6.35cm (2.50in) (L x H)
– Height of end brackets: standard – 12cm (4.725in), low-profile – 7.94cm
(3.13in)