NEW - BroadCom 10Gb - 2 port & 4 Port for Blade Center

BroadCom 10 Gb 2-Port and 4-Port Ethernet Expansion Cards (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter offer multiple interfaces with BladeCenter blades

Overview

BroadCom 10 Gb 2-Port and 4-Port Ethernet Expansion Cards (CFFh) (44W4465 and 44W4466)

Broadcom 10 Gb 2-Port and 4-Port Ethernet Expansion Cards (CFFh) for IBM® BladeCenter shows IBM's commitment to meet customer needs through its BladeCenter offerings. It is the latest addition to the 10 Gb BladeCenter portfolio enabling high-speed connections to drive bandwidth-intensive applications like virtualization. IBM offers two versions of the card (2- port and 4-port), giving higher flexibility to its clients. The 4-port version of the card allows clients to add up to four High-Speed Switch Modules in a single chassis to meet the most bandwidth-intensive application needs.

Some of the high-level features included in this offering are:

• Offers end-to-end up to 10 Gb solution
• Based on the Broadcom 57710 module
• PCI Express x8 host interface for high-speed connection
• Connectivity to high-speed I/O modules bays in BCH and BCH-T chassis
• Enables up to four 10 Gb ports from the blade server to the external network
• 4-port card allows use of four 10 Gb Ethernet High-Speed Switch Modules (HSSM) in a chassis

Performance features:

• TCP offload engine (TOE) with Windows® T4.6 drivers
• Full fast-path TCP offload
• TCP, IP checksum offload
• TCP, segmentation offload

Planned Availability: November 14, 2008

44W4466
Broadcom 10 Gb 2-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh)
for IBM BladeCenter

44W4465

Broadcom 10 Gb 4-port Ethernet Expansion Card (CFFh)
for IBM BladeCenter

46M5251
iDataPlex Cable Management Kit for 9308 Rack

46M5252

iDataPlex Cable Management Kit for Standard Racks