Intel® Ethernet Controller X550-BT2

Intel® Ethernet Controller X550-BT2

Essentials

Product Collection
Intel® Ethernet Controller X550
Code Name
Products formerly Sageville
Marketing Status
Discontinued
Launch Date
Q4'15
Expected Discontinuance
LOD: Jan/22/2022; LSD: April/22/2022
Lithography
28 nm
TDP
11 W
Supported Operating Systems
FreeBSD 10.2, Linux RHEL 6.7, Linux RHEL 7.1, Linux SLES 11 SP4, Linux SLES 11 SP4-IA64, Linux SLES 12, Linux Stable Kernel version 2.6/3.x, Linux Stable Kernel version 4.x, UEFI 2.1, UEFI 2.3, UEFI 2.4, VMware ESXi 5.5/6.0, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Core, Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 Core, Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 Core, Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V, WinPE 3.0 (2008 R2 PE), WinPE 4.0 (2012 PE), WinPE 5.0 (2012 R2 PE)
Operating Temperature Range
0°C to 55°C
Max Operating Temperature
55 °C
Minimum Operating Temperature
0 °C

Supplemental Information

Datasheet
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Description
See PCN 118547 for EOL timelines.
Fully integrated 10GBASE-T controller designed for LAN-on-Motherboard (LOM) & Converged Network Adapters (CNA)
Product Brief
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Networking Specifications

Port Configuration
Dual
Data Rate Per Port
10/5/2.5/1GbE (NBASE-T in Linux Only)
System Interface Type
PCIe v2.1 (5.0 GT/s)
NC Sideband Interface
Yes
Jumbo Frames Supported
Yes
Interfaces Supported
100Base-T, 1000Base-T, 10GBase-T

Package Specifications

Package Size
25mm x 25mm

Intel® Virtualization Technology for Connectivity

Flexible Port Partitioning
Yes
Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq)
Yes
PCI-SIG* SR-IOV Capable
Yes

Advanced Technologies

Intel® Virtualization Technology for Connectivity (VT-c)
VMDq, SR-IOV
Fiber Channel over Ethernet
Yes
MACsec IEEE 802.1 AE
No
IEEE 1588
Yes
Supported Under Intel vPro® Technology
No
iWARP/RDMA
No
Intel® Ethernet Power Management
Yes
Intel® Data Direct I/O Technology
Yes
Intelligent Offloads
Yes
Storage Over Ethernet
iSCSI, FCoE, NFS

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Refer to Datasheet for formal definitions of product properties and features.

‡ This feature may not be available on all computing systems. Please check with the system vendor to determine if your system delivers this feature, or reference the system specifications (motherboard, processor, chipset, power supply, HDD, graphics controller, memory, BIOS, drivers, virtual machine monitor-VMM, platform software, and/or operating system) for feature compatibility. Functionality, performance, and other benefits of this feature may vary depending on system configuration.

“Announced” SKUs are not yet available. Please refer to the Launch Date for market availability.

System and Maximum TDP is based on worst case scenarios. Actual TDP may be lower if not all I/Os for chipsets are used.

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