T520-BT

High Performance, Dual Port

10 GbE Unified Wire Adapter
Enables TCP, UDP, ISCSI, iWARP and FCoE Offload over Single
Unified Wire with SR-IOV, EVB/VNTag, DCB

Highlights Overview
 PCI Express Gen3 x8
Chelsio’s T520-BT is a dual port
 Low Latency 10GBase-T 10 Gigabit Ethernet
 Supports up to 1M Connections Unified Wire adapter with PCI
 Full TCP and UDP offload Express 3.0 host bus interface,
 Full iSCSI, FCoE offload optimized for storage, cloud
 Full iWARP RDMA offload computing, HPC, virtualization
 Full NAT offload and other data center
 EVB, Flex10, VNTag
 PCI-SIG SR-IOV applications.
 Integrated media streaming offload
 HW based firewall The fifth-generation T5 ASIC
 Traffic filtering & management technology from Chelsio
 Software Compatible with T4 provides the highest
 IEEE 1588v2 Precision Time Protocol performance available and
dramatically lowers host-system
Applications CPU communications overhead
Datacenter Networking with on-board hardware that offloads TCP/IP, iSCSI, FCoE and iWARP RDMA
 Scale up servers and NAS systems processing from its host system and frees up host CPU cycles for other
 Link servers in multiple facilities to synchronize applications. As a result, the system benefits from higher bandwidth, lower latency
data centers and reduced power consumption.
 Consolidate LAN, SAN, and cluster networks
Cloud Computing
 Virtualization features to maximize cloud The Unified Wire Solution
scaling and utilization The T5 ASIC enables a unified wire for LAN, SAN, and cluster traffic, built upon a
 Runs InfiniBand, Fibre Channel apps combination of high bandwidth and low latency architecture along with a
unmodified over Ethernet
 Cloud-ready functional and management complete set of storage and cluster protocols operating over Ethernet (iSCSI, FCoE,
features and iWARP). In parallel, operating systems and hypervisors that have incorporated
 QoS and Traffic Management native support for iSCSI and database applications are now supporting file-based
Networked Storage storage protocols such as NFS as an alternative to SANs.
 Enable high performance NAS systems and
Ethernet-based SANs FCoE and iSCSI support in the T520-BT benefits from high reliability features that
 Develop shared-storage systems providing include memory ECC, data path CRC and T10-DIX in addition to the checksums and
both file and block level services
 Build high performance storage backend CRC available at different protocols layers. iSCSI and FCoE provide a transition path
fabrics using Ethernet from legacy SANs to converged networks.
High Performance Computing
 Very low latency Ethernet The adapter supports IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation/failover features, as well as
 Increase cluster fabric bandwidth patented inter-adapter failover techniques that make it ideal for critical network
 Deploy Ethernet-only networking for cluster applications requiring redundancy and high-availability capabilities.
fabric, LAN and SAN
T520-BT also includes an integrated Traffic Manager for robust flow control, traffic
management, and QoS.
T520-BT 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.

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Fifth-Generation Protocol Offload Engine Specifications
The T5 is Chelsio’s fifth-generation TCP offload (TOE) design, fourth-generation Host Interface
iSCSI design, and third-generation iWARP (RDMA) implementation. With  PCI-E Gen3 x8
support for the 8 Gbps Gen 3 data rate, the T5 ASIC PCIe interface provides 64  MSI-X, MSI and support for legacy pin
interrupts
Gbps of raw bandwidth to the server. T5 also provides support for PCIe SR-IOV
virtualization with embedded virtual switch. High Performance RDMA
 Low latency and line rate bandwidth
 Enhanced RDMA primitives
 iWARP support on Linux OFED
Complete and Flexible TCP Offload  Support for Atomics and Immediate Data
The T5 has hundreds of programmable registers for protocol configurations,  Microsoft Network Direct support
RFCs, and offload control. The T520-BT can offload processing per connection,  Supported Transport for SMB-Direct in
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
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 UDP & Multicast Offload
process. The T520-BT provides a flexible zero-copy capability for regular TCP  UDP Sockets API
 Low user-to-user latency
connections, requiring no changes to the sender.  Multicast replication on ingress or egress
Virtualization
Packet Switching and Routing  PCI-SIG SR-IOV
T520-BT integrates a high performance packet switch, which allows switching  128 Virtual and 8 Physical functions
traffic from any of the input ports to any of the output ports (wire-to-wire) and  140 port virtual switch
 EVB, VEPA, Flex10, VNTag
from any of the output ports to any of the input ports (host-to-host).  512 virtual MAC addresses
 Offload 802.1 Qbg/h
 NVGRE & VxLAN
Robust, Proven Solution
Subjected to thousands of hours of compatibility testing, over a decade of stress TCP/IP Full Offload
testing by several OEM test suites and production deployment in servers,  Full TCP implementation including IPv4 & IPv6
 Extensive RFC compliance, fully features stack
storage systems, and cluster computing, Chelsio’s robust, stable protocol  Full TCP Proxy between any set of connections
offload technology delivers proven performance in a wide range of  VLAN support up to 4096 VLAN IDs
environments.  Load balancing and Fail-over capabilities
iSCSI
Software Drivers  Full iSCSI initiator and target mode stack
 CRC32 offload generation verification
Chelsio offers a full suite of protocol software drivers with the T520-BT  iSCSI proxy switching based on SCSI CDB
adapters. See www.chelsio.com/support for the latest information. The  Full HBA offload
software supports operation in both protocol-offload and non-offload modes.  T10 DIF/DIX support
FCoE
Ordering Information  Full HBA FCoE (Initiator or Target)
Model: T520-BT  Open FCoE Offload (Initiator)
 CRC32 offload generation & verification
Physical Interface: Dual port RJ-45 / 10GBase-T  Ingress & Egress ACL (Access Control List)
Connector: RJ-45 / Cat-6a  T10 DIF/DIX support
Media: Twisted pair 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 2ns)
 Ethernet Routing (packet header rewrite)
 Packet Tracing and Packet Sniffing
Ethernet
 IEEE 802.3ae (10 GbE)
 IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet
 IEEE 802.3z (1GbE)
 IEEE 802.1p Priority
 IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
 IEEE 802.1Qbg EVB/VEPA
 IEEE 802.1BR Bridge Port Extension
 IEEE 802.1Qau Congestion Notification
 IEEE 802.3x Flow Control
 IEEE 802.3ad Load-balancing and Failover
 Ethernet II and 802.e encapsulated frames
 Multiple MAC addresses per interface
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 Typical power consumption: 20 W

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