AEI-e1400C
PCI Express x4
Quad 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Card
w/ Embedded CPU Offload Engine (TOE)
Server Class Adapter Card

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

*  According to Telcordia SR-332 Issue 1 Environmental condition – GB (Ground, Fixed, Controlled). Ambient temperature - 25°C. Temperature rise of 10°C above the system ambient temperature was assumed for the cards components.