10GbE 10GBASE-T, Dual 10GBASE-CX4 Low-Profile Server Adapters

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Tehuti Networks has announced three new additions to its adapter reference design family. The TN7588-S, a 10GBASE-T single port NIC; the TN7588-D, a 10GBASE-T dual port NIC; and the TN7585-D, the industry’s first 10GbE dual port CX4, low-profile server adapter. All adapters are based upon the newly released Tehuti Networks TN3016 host hardware offload controller. The TN7588-S and TN7588-D adapters also include the Teranetics TeraPHY TN1010 transceiver and are designed to support the IEEE Std. 802.3an. The TN7585-D dual port CX4 adapter is compliant with IEEE Std. 802.3ak and is sampling to ODM and OEM customers.

Tehuti Networks’ TN3016 controller features a PCI Express host bus and XAUI (10 Gigabit Attachment Unit Interface) networkinterface and dual XAUI 10GbE ports. The TN7 interfaces. All adapters feature a PCI Express 8 lane host bus 585-D adapter’s dimensions are a mere 4.6" by 2.5" with a power dissipation of 11W. These solutions support all major operating systems including Microsoft, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris . They also support PCI-SIG IOV multi-root virtualization and software VMWare and Xen.

Tehuti Networks’ TN7585-D NICs are also offered as a product development kit (PDK) which includes two adapters, two CX4 cables and all documentation.

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