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Intel® Network Connectivity Technologies |
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| From Gigabit Ethernet to Virtual Private Networking, a host of technologies are shaping today's networks-and tomorrow's. Intel can help you add to your knowledge about the technologies that interest you. |
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| Networking optimized for multi-core processors |
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The high performance and energy efficiency of multi-core Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers is helping drive the adoption of server
virtualization and other I/O-intensive applications that require the fastest possible response time. Intel’s next-generation Gigabit and 10
Gigabit Ethernet Controllers are optimized for these multi-core systems to alleviate the network throughput and overhead problems
associated with previous-generation server platforms.
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PCI Express*, the third generation input/output (I/O) standard for desktop and servers improves network performance beyond that of older PCI and
PCI-X desktop and server bus architectures. The higher performance of PCI Express derives from its faster, scalable serial-I/O interconnect, which
provides a dedicated, bi-directional I/O with 2.5-GHz clocking, versus the slower 133-MHz parallel bus of PCI-X.
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| Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel® I/OAT) |
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Today, more than ever, business success relies on the rapid transfer and processing of data. To improve data transfer to and from applications,
IT managers continue to invest in new networking and storage infrastructure to achieve higher performance. Server I/O latency has emerged as the
bottleneck that must be overcome for IT to be able to realize value from these investments. This performance issue is addressed with Intel® I/O
Acceleration Technology, an integrated platform I/O solution that gets data to and from applications faster and with greater reliability and
efficiency.
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| Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) |
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Intel® Active Management Technology is a platform-resident hardware and firmware solution using out-of-band (OOB) communication for platform access
regardless of the state of the operating system (OS) or platform power. Even with a crashed hard drive or inoperable operating system, Intel® Active
Management Technology maintains access to and management of the platform allowing the IT technician can remotely access the platform for diagnostics,
recovery and inventory management. Essentially, the only requirements are that the platform be corporate network connected and have stand-by power.
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Today's resource-intensive applications running on multi-core Intel Xeon processor-based servers are driving the need for greater networking
bandwidth and more efficient processing of network data. 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) will meet the growing throughput requirements, but the
greater amounts of network data will require more efficient processing. Intel's next-generation 10GbE controller supports a number of
latency-lowering features that are optimized for new multi-core platforms.
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Today's medium-size and enterprise-level businesses face ever-increasing demands for more network storage capacity, both for regulatory compliance and for meeting evolving business needs. Of the various network storage architectures available, the storage area network (SAN) based on the Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) standard offers the greatest advantages for flexible, scalable storage with easier manageability and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Software iSCSI initiators, available in most operating systems today, allow you to use any Intel® PRO/1000 Server Adapter to handle local area network (LAN) traffic, iSCSI SAN traffic, or both. Now, with the addition of iSCSI Remote Boot support on Intel® PRO/1000 Server Adapters for PCI Express*, you can centralize SAN management without an expensive host bus adapter (HBA) while achieving high performance through the benefits of PCI Express and Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology.
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