Intel unleashes high-speed NICs

SANTA CLARA - Intel this week is releasing network interface card products aimed at helping servers and client PCs handle torrents of Ethernet traffic on corporate LANs.

New Gigabit and 10G Ethernet adapters could help corporate customers take advantage of high-speed LAN connections and newer, powerful server processor technology applications to run faster between clients and servers.

Intel is releasing its 10G Ethernet PCI-X server adapter, which can be used to connect a PCI-X-based server with links as fast as 10G bit/sec. It also is announcing a four-port Gigabit Ethernet NIC for servers, and new Gigabit Ethernet chips aimed at making blade servers run faster. It also will have products aimed at letting PCI-based desktops fully utilize Gigabit Ethernet.

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SANTA CLARA - Intel this week is releasing network interface card products aimed at helping servers and client PCs handle torrents of Ethernet traffic on corporate LANs.

New Gigabit and 10G Ethernet adapters could help corporate customers take advantage of high-speed LAN connections and newer, powerful server processor technology applications to run faster between clients and servers.

Intel is releasing its 10G Ethernet PCI-X server adapter, which can be used to connect a PCI-X-based server with links as fast as 10G bit/sec. It also is announcing a four-port Gigabit Ethernet NIC for servers, and new Gigabit Ethernet chips aimed at making blade servers run faster. It also will have products aimed at letting PCI-based desktops fully utilize Gigabit Ethernet.

Intel's Pro/1000 MT Quad Port server adapter packs four copper-based 1000Base-T ports into one PCI-X network card. The NIC is aimed at connecting a server to segments of a network that are physically separated. It can provide a server with simultaneous links to a LAN and network-attached storage systems. The card can be configured as a virtual 4G bit/sec connecting when connected to four 1000Base-T ports on a single switch that supports the IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation standard.