Description: Brocade PCI-e 10GB Dual Port Converged Network Adapter (CNA) for IBM System x Servers
Part Number(s)
IBM Part# 42C1823
IBM Option Part# 42C1820
Overview:
The Brocade 10Gb CNA for IBM System x is a PCI Express 2.0 x8 10Gb Converged Network Adapter with two optical SFP+ SR ports. The adapter can support either an SFP+ Multimode Fiber SR optical module or an SFP+ Active Copper cable. This adapter offers 10Gbps per port maximum throughput for high-bandwidth storage (SAN) and networking (LAN) traffic - with full hardware offload for Fibre Channel over Ethernet protocol processing. The convergence helps lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) with reduced hardware - power - cooling - and management and maintenance costs. It offers investment protection with seamless compatibility to existing FC storage networks - drivers - and management applications - all over a common IP network with Ethernet. With the PCI Express low profile card form factor - the adapter can be used in either a standard PCI-E slot or a low profile PCI-E slot. This adapter is supported for all IBM System x modular rack servers - including the latest PCI Express 2.0 Generation 2 servers.