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PCI-e 4-Port 10/100/1000 Quad Gigabit Ethernet Controller with onboard TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE)

AEI Intelligent Technologies' PCI Express 4 Port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet network interface card (AEI-e1400C) is designed to deliver high performance, and high reliability for demanding applications, as well as legacy Fast Ethernet connectivity.  It provides a full-duplex Gigabit Ethernet connection in a x4 PCI Express Form Factor.  The AEI-e1400C is compatible with x4, x8, and x16 PCI Express slots.

 

 

The AEI-e1400C is a high performance multi-speed quad-port Gigabit Ethernet controller ideally suited for port density applications.    The card is capable of operating in either half or full duplex mode.  The AEI-e1400C incorporates in-chip RISC processors to greatly enhance performance by providing advanced filtering and traffic classifications as well as support for computation intensive TCP/IP operations.   

 

Additionally, the controller employs a powerful DMA engine to maximize bus throughput while minimizing CPU overhead. 

AEI's adapters are the perfect solution for a cost effective, instant performance boost over existing Category 5 UTP copper cabling.  It also offers scalability for those contemplating future upgrades to Gigabit technology.

Design Characteristics

Unlike other PCI Express NIC alternatives, the AEI-e1400C incorporates only PCI Express technology throughout its design.  Subsequently, no PCI-X to PCI Express protocol conversion is necessary, thus providing enhanced performance over our competition.

 

It is uniquely designed with integrated magnetics, low profile surface mount resistors and capacitors, high precision oscillator, and other high-end discrete components.  The result is a card that is highly reliable, resistant to damage, fault tolerant, and performance that is unparalleled.  The AEI-e1400C is fully interoperable with existing Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet hubs, switches and routers.   

 

CPU Offload Functions

Each Ethernet controller chip contains an embedded RISC processor and memory buffer.  This provides custom frame processing features, as well as CPU offloading of TCP/IP, UDP, checksum, and Microsoft® LSO.

 

Jumbo Frame

The Gigabit adapter is configurable to support Jumbo Frame (9KB)

 

iSCSI

The AEI-e1400C provides hardware acceleration of the iSCSI mechanisms and protocols.  The adapter provides a rich and complete iSCSI HBA functionality.

 

Advanced Server Features
AEI's Gigabit adapters utilize the popular Broadcom BCM5715 chipset, which comes with numerous advance server features built into its architecture. Hardware acceleration offloads tasks from the host processor including TCP segmentation, IP fragmentation, and reassembly.  CPU task offload functions include TCP, IP, UDP checksum; and Microsoft LSO. 
 

Features

  • Ten times the throughput of standard Fast Ethernet cards.

  • Nway auto negotiation / automatic sensing and switching between 10 Mbps / 100 Mbps/ 1000Mbps AND  half or full duplex operation.

  • Easy to install and configure.

  • Half or Full Duplex operation.

  • Three speed 10Mbps (10Base-T), 100 Mbps (100Base-Tx), or 1000 Mbps (1000Base-T)

  • Cross Platform support for a broad range of operating systems and architectures.

  • DMA Bus Mastering for lower CPU utilization.

Applications

  • Firewalls and other Internet Security Appliances

  • Internet Service Providers and Web Hosting Servers.

  • Proxy, application, file, and print servers.

  • SOHO to Enterprise network environments.

  • Storage Area Networks (SAN)

  • Network Attached Storage (NAS)

  • Network segmentation (for network security purposes)

  • Gateways and routers.

Specifications

 

Part Number

AEI-e1400C

Connector Quad RJ-45(f)
IEEE Standards IEEE 802.3 (10Base-T Ethernet)
IEEE 802.3u (100Base-Tx Ethernet)
IEEE 802.3ab (1000Base-T Ethernet)
IEEE 802.3ad (Port Aggregation)
802.1Q (VLAN)
802.1x (Flow Control)
802.1p (Layer 2 Priority Encoding QoS)

Fast EtherChannel (FEC) and Gigabit EtherChannel (GEC) supported.
Trunking & Failover Compatible with features contained within the Windows and Linux operating systems.  802.3ad
Speeds, Cable & Distance
Ethernet, 10Base-T  (Cat 3, 4, 5 UTP)
Fast Ethernet, 100Base-Tx  (Cat 5 UTP )
Gigabit Ethernet, 1000Base-T (Cat 5, Cat 5e, Cat 6, and DataTwist 600e)

Distance up to 100 meters maximum
For Gigabit transmissions, recommend use of Belden Cable's DataTwist 600e.
Suggested reading for Gigabit cabling:  AEI whitepaper 2003-01-21

Duplex Half or Full Duplex operation capable.

Auto-negotiation / NWay

Auto-negotiation between Full duplex and simplex operations AND between 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, and 1000 Mbps.

CPU Offload

Onboard MIPS RISC processor for:

  • TCP/IP Offload TCP/IP Offload Engine TOE

  • UDP Offload

  • Checksuom Offload

  • Microsoft LSO

Jumbo Frame Yes, 9KB
PXE PXE 2.0 Remote Boot 
LEDs

1000 and Activity

Also, onboard diagnostic LEDs for:

  • Link / Each Port

  • Internal PCIe data link active for each MAC.

  • Internal power good for each MAC.

  • Internal PCIe Lane Good indicators (0-2).

  • Internal PCIe Fault.

These onboard indicators provide system administrators easy one-look diagnostic capability.

Bus Type PCI Express 1.1 compliant
Driver Support

See the following hyperlink for downloadable device drivers, Remote Installation Service (RIS) Drivers, and Management Applications.


Device Drivers

  • Microsoft Windows Suite

  • Linux

  • Solaris (x86)

  • DOS NDIS2

  • Novel NetWare

  • SCO OpenServer5

  • SCO Unixware/OS6

  • OpenBSD 3.0 or above

  • VxWorks offers the BCM57xx drivers embedded in their operating system.  Please, contact Wind River for any questions and support.


     

  • Diagnostic Utilities

 

 

Certifications RoHS Compliant
FCC Part 15, Subpart B - Class A; CE; CISPR-22-A; CISPR-22-B, VCCI-A; CSA 22.2 No. 950-95; and CE compliant to: EN55024, EN50082-1, EN60950
Environment Specs Temperature: operating 0C to 50C
Humidity: 0 to 90% non-condensing
Slot Type 6.9" (L) x 4.2" (H)
x4 connector compatible with PCI Express x8, x16 slots
MTBF* 135 Years
Power Consumption

5.25W:  0.44A at 12V and 3.63W: 1.1A at 3.3V: Typical, all ports operate at 1000Mbit/s.

2.64W
: 0.22A at 12V and 2.079W: 0.63A at 3.3V: Typical, all ports operate at 100Mbit/s.

2.16W
: 0.18A at 12V and 1.947W: 0.59A at 3.3V: Typical, all port operates at 10Mbit/s.

2.4W
: 0.2A at 12V and 1.782W: 0.54A at 3.3V: Typical, No link.