HP NC373F PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter
The HP NC373F is a high performance PCI Express multifunction network adapter that supports standard or low profile slots in ProLiant servers running over a fiber-optic network environment. The NC373F is a four lane (x4) serial device with 92KB of onboard memory. In addition to delivering Gigabit Ethernet networking, the NC373F supports TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine) for Windows only and iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) over a single network connection making it a multifunction Ethernet server adapter.
The NC373F ships with all the advanced server features that ProLiant customers have come to expect, such as support for failover and load balancing, Pre-Boot Execution Environment (PXE), jumbo frames, large send offload, and multiple VLAN tagging.
Gigabit Ethernet
Throughput
Up to 1000Mbps Ethernet transfer rate delivers outstanding network performance that improves response time and removes bottlenecks across the entire network.
TCP/IP Offloading
TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) for Windows moves the processing of data in the TCP protocol stack from the server CPU to the network card, freeing CPU cycles for other duties. The NC373F supports TOE when Windows TOE Chimney is installed. With TOE, network communications are improved, and server efficiency is increased.
Accelerated iSCSI
Accelerated iSCSI allows the NC373F to multi-function as both as a network adapter and as a storage host bus adapter, thereby providing access to storage platforms and to servers over a single connection. Additionally, the NC373F offloads the iSCSI software to the hardware for improved performance.
Load Balancing
Transmit Load Balancing (TLB) and Switch-Assisted Load Balancing (SLB) are two advanced features used to build a bigger pipe for improved networking bandwidth. These port bonding techniques enable users to use up to eight adapter ports in a ProLiant server and aggregate their throughput up to a theoretical maximum of 16 Gigabits per second full-duplex transmission. The NC373F can be configured with other NC-series Ethernet server adapter teams supported on ProLiant servers
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