T420-CX High Performance, Dual Port 10GbE Unified Wire Adapter Enables TCP, UDP, iSCSI, iWARP, and FCoE Offload over Single Unified Wire with SR-IOV, EVB/VNTag, DCB Highlights PCI Express Gen2 x8 Low Latency Supports Up to 1M connections Full TCP & UDP offload TCP Chimney Full iSCSI, FCoE offload Full iWARP RDMA offload EVB, VEPA, Flex10, VNTag PCI-SIG SR-IOV Integrated media streaming offload HW based firewall in the cloud Traffic filtering & management Applications Data-Center Networking Scale up servers and NAS systems Link servers in multiple facilities to synchronize data centers Consolidate LAN, SAN, and cluster networks Cloud Computing Virtualization features to maximize cloud scaling and utilization Runs InfiniBand, Fibre Channel apps unmodified on Ethernet Cloud ready functional and management features QoS and Traffic management Networked Storage Enable high performance NAS systems and Ethernet-based IP SANs Develop shared-storage systems providing both file- and block-level services High Performance Computing Very low latency Ethernet Increase cluster fabric bandwidth Deploy Ethernet-only networking for cluster fabric, LAN, and SAN Chelsio Communications Overview Chelsio's T420-CX is a dual port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Unified Wire adapter with PCI Express 2.0 host bus interface, optimized for cloud computing, HPC, virtualization, storage, and other data center applications. The fourth-generation (T4) technology from Chelsio provides the highest 10GbE performance available and dramatically lowers host-system CPU communications overhead with on-board hardware that off-loads TCP/IP, iSCSI, FCoE and iWARP RDMA processing from its host system. T420-CX frees up host CPU cycles for useful applications. The system achieves increased bandwidth, lower latency, and lower power. The Unified Wire Solution With the T420-CX, Chelsio is enabling a unified wire for LAN, SAN and cluster traffic. This unified wire was made possible by the high bandwidth and low latency of 10GbE combined with storage and cluster protocols operating over TCP/IP (iSCSI, FCoE and iWARP respectively). In parallel, operating systems and hypervisors have incorporated native support for iSCSI and database applications are now supporting filebased storage protocols such as NFS as an alternative to SANs. T420-CX includes a full-fledged integrated Traffic Manager for robust flow control, traffic management and QoS. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) provides a transition path from legacy SANs to converged networks. Expanding its unified wire approach, Chelsio has added FCoE hardware support to the new T420-CX adapter. The adapter's two ports and IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation/failover features are ideal for critical network applications that require redundancy and high-availability capabilities. T420-CX Ethernet-only networking reduces the data center's cost in network adapters, cables, switches, rack space, power, equipment spares, management tools, planning, networking skills, and installation. www.chelsio.com sales@chelsio.com +1-408-962-3600 T4 - Fourth-Generation Protocol Offload Engine The T4 is Chelsio's fourthgeneration TCP offload (TOE) design, thirdgeneration iSCSI design, and secondgeneration iWARP (RDMA) implementation. For the server connection, the T4 chip includes a PCI Express v2.0 x8 host interface. With support for the 5Gbps Gen2 data rate, the PCIe interface provides up to 32Gbps of bandwidth to the server. T4 also adds support for PCIe I/O virtualization. Most of T4 features are enhanced versions of those found in T3. Features that carry over from T3 include stateless offloads, packet filtering (firewall offload), and traffic shaping (media streaming). Complete and Flexible TCP Offload The T4 has hundreds of programmable registers for protocol configuration, RFCs, and offload control. The T420-CX can offload TCP processing per connection, per-server, per-interface, and globally and simultaneously tunnel traffic from non-offloaded connections to the host processor for the native TCP/IP stack to process. The T420CX provides a flexible zero copy capability for regular TCP connections, requiring no changes to the sender, to deliver line rate performance at minimal CPU utilization. Packet Switching and Routing Specifications Host Interface PCI Express Gen2 x8 MSI-X, MSI and support for legacy pin interrupts High Performance RDMA Low latency and line rate bandwidth Enhanced RDMA primitives iWARP support on Linux OFED Microsoft Network Direct support UDP & Multicast Offload UDP Sockets API Low user-to-user latency Multicast replication on ingress or egress Virtualization PCI-SIG SR-IOV 128 Virtual and 8 Physical functions 144 port virtual switch EVB, VEPA, Flex10, VNTag 336 virtual MAC addresses FCoE Full HBA FCoE (Initiator or Target) Open-FCoE Offload (Initiator) CRC32 offload generation & verification Ingress & Egress ACL (Access Control List) T420-CX integrates a high performance packet switch, which allows switching traffic from any of the input ports to any of the output ports (wire-to-wire) and from any of the output ports to any of the input ports (host-to-host). iSCSI Acceleration Robust, Proven Solution TCP/IP Full Offload Full TCP implementation including IPv4 & IPv6 Microsoft Chimney support Extensive RFC compliance, fully featured stack Full TCP Proxy between any set of connections VLAN support up to 4096 different VLAN IDs Load balancing and Fail-over capabilities Subjected to thousands of hours of compatibility testing, over multiple years of stress testing by several OEM test suites and production deployments in servers, storage systems and cluster computing, Chelsio's robust, stable protocol offload technology delivers proven performance in a wide range of environments. The T420-CX is generations ahead of competing products. Software Drivers Chelsio offers a full suite of protocol software and drivers with the T420-CX adapters. See www.chelsio.com/support for latest info. The software supports operation in both protocol-offload and nonoffload modes. Ordering info Model: T420-CX Physical interface: 10GBASE-CX4 Connector: CX4 Media: CX4 copper* Accessories CX4CABLE3M CX4 copper cable, 10GBASE-CX4, 3-meter CX4CABLE15M CX4 copper cable, 10GBASE-CX4, 15-meter *Supports active optical cables with distances up to 100 meters. INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH CHELSIO PRODUCTS. NO LICENSE, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY ESTOPPEL OR OTHERWISE, TO ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IS GRANTED BY THIS DOCUMENT. EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN CHELSIO'S TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE FOR SUCH PRODUCTS, CHELSIO ASSUMES NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER, AND CHELSIO DISCLAIMS ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, RELATING TO SALE AND/OR USE OF CHELSIO PRODUCTS INCLUDING LIABILITY OR WARRANTIES RELATING TO FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR INFRINGEMENT OF ANY PATENT, COPYRIGHT OR OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT. CHELSIO PRODUCTS ARE NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN MEDICAL, LIFE SAVING, OR LIFE SUSTAINING APPLICATIONS. CHELSIO MAY MAKE CHANGES TO SPECIFICATIONS AND PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT NOTICE. Chelsio Communications www.chelsio.com Full iSCSI initiator and target mode stack CRC32 offload generation & verification iSCSI proxy switching based on SCSI CDB Full HBA offload Stateless Offloads TCP/UDP checksum offload for IPv4 & IPv6 TSO, LSO, and GSO for IPv4 & IPv6 VLAN filtering, insertion & extraction Line rate packet filtering and attack protection Fine granularity time stamping (down to 4ns) Ethernet Routing (packet header rewrite) Packet Tracing and Packet Sniffing Ethernet IEEE 802.3ae (10 GbE) IEEE 802.3z (1 GbE) compliant IEEE 802.IP priority IEEE 802.IQ VLAN tagging IEEE 802.1Qbg EVB/VEPA IEEE 802.1Qbh VNTag IEEE 802.3x flow control IEEE 802.3ad load-balancing and failover Ether II and 802.3 encapsulated frames Multiple MAC addresses per interface Jumbo Frames up to 9.6Kbytes Physical and Environmental Dimensions without bracket: 6.6 in. x 2.71 in. or 16.76 cm x 6.88 cm Operating Temp: 0 to 55C or 32 to 131F Operating Humidity: 5 to 95% Typical power consumption: 12W sales@chelsio.com +1-408-962-3600 PB20X-Q111