The Interface Masters Niagara 42084 (Based on Intel 82580) provides support for:

•  Up to Four SFP Transceivers (1Gbit/sec) supporting SFP modules from many vendors, including Direct Attach Cables

•  IEEE 802.3ab, 802.3u, 802.3x compliant PHY for copper and fiber transceivers

•  Four Lane (X4) PCI Express 2.0 (5 GT/s) with a Low Power 2.7W draw, supporting MSI-X

•  Advanced packet filtering including IPv6 Offloading, Transmit TCP segmentation, Transmit and receive IP, TCP and UDP checksum offloading capabilities

•  Basic Virtualization Support: Eight (8) TX & RX queues, supports Virtual Machine Data queues (VMDq)

•  Support for transmission and reception of packets up to 9.5 KBytes (Jumbo Frames)

•  VLAN Tagging, Stripping and Packet Filtering (802.1q)

•  IEEE 1588 (Pre standard) per packet time stamping

•  Standard Intel drivers for Linux, FreeBSD, VMWare ESXi, Xen, Hyper-V and Windows, plug and play