The NC523SFP is an eight lane (x8) PCI Express (PCIe) 10 Gigabit network solution offering superior bandwidth in a ProLiant Ethernet adapter. This dual port PCI Express Gen 2 adapter supports SFP+ (Small Form-factor Pluggable) connectors, requiring either Direct Attach Cable (DAC) for copper environments, or fiber transceivers and fiber cables for fiber optic environments.

The NC523SFP ships with advanced server features that ProLiant customers have come to expect, such as support for TCP checksum and segmentation (LSO) offload capability, VLAN tagging, jumbo frames, IPv6, and more. Flexible to order and install, the NC523SFP can be used in either standard or low profile slots.

What's new

• Latest 10GbE networking ASIC from QLogic, the P3+ silicon (cLOM8214)

• Enhanced performance and reduced power requirement compared with the previous generation product (HP NC522SFP)

Features

Two 10GbE ports enable a theoretical maximum of 40Gbps throughput using dual ports, bi-direction, full-duplex mode

The NC523SFP is built around the QLogic cLOM8214 high performance 10 Gigabit controller, bringing the latest 10 Gigabit technology to ProLiant customers

The NC523SFP is a PCI Express Generation 2 product deploying the latest eight lane (x8) PCI Express technology updates

Two ports save valuable I/O slots for other cards

Ports can be configured for failover, load balancing, or connecting to a separate network

Dual ports help reduce cabling

The NC523SFP ships with SFP+ cages for attachment to copper or fiber optic networks

Direct Attach Cable (DAC) is used for connecting the NC523SFP to copper networks

Fiber transceivers support SR connectors

Cables and transceivers are available directly from HP