<b>Highlights</b><br>- Offers 10GbE Ethernet<br>- Support demanding workloads for enterprise, cloud, and telecommunication service providers and data centers<br><br><b>Overview</b><br>The Intel X550 Dual Port 10G Base-T Adapter, Low Profile Ethernet is is validated and optimized on Intel® Xeon® processors and is backward Compatible with 1000BASE-T. It has an integrated MAC + 10GBASE-T PHYs, Single-Chip Solution and is designed for Multi-Core Processors: MSI/MSI-X and Direct Cache Access, Flow Director, up to 128 Tx/Rx physical queues per port. It is the best choice for virtualized servers, providing advanced features including Intel® Virtualization Technology for Connectivity (VT-c), Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) and Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) up to 64 VFs per port, NVGRE and VXLAN stateless offloads delivering amazing performance.<br><br>- Built to enable Network Virtualization and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)<br>- Unparalleled supply line, customer suppo
| Chipset | Intel |
| Internal | Yes |
| Interface | Ethernet |
| Ethernet LAN | Yes |
| Component for | Server |
| Host interface | PCI Express |
| LAN controller | Intel® X550 |
| Product colour | Black, Green |
| Wake-on-LAN ready | Yes |
| Cabling technology | 10GBase-T |
| Compatible products | PowerEdge FC430, FC830, M630, M830, R430, R530, R630, R730, R730xd, R930, T430, T630 |
| Data link protocols | 10 GigE |