HPE® 1QL46AA alternative Intel X550 Converged NIC PCIe 3.0 x4 Dual Port RJ45

The 1QL46AA is a low-cost option for deploying 10GbE in your data centre as it uses CAT6 and CAT6A cabling which is standard cabling for many data centres. Auto negotiation between 1GbE, 2.5GbE, 5GbE, and 10GbE provides the necessary backwards compatibility required for a smooth transition and easy migration to 10GbE. The copper cabling has a flexible reach from 1 metre to 100 metres. This device supports Top of Rack (ToR), Middle of Row (MoR), and End of Row (EoR) network architectures. 

• PCI Express* (PCIe*) v3.0 with up to 8.0 GT/s
• Low cost, low power, 10 GbE performance for the entire data centre
• Intel second generation, single and dual port 10GBASE-T controller with integrated MAC and PHY
• Standard CAT 6a cabling with RJ45 connectors
• Supports NBASE-T* technology (2.5 and 5.0 GbE over CAT 5e)
• Backward compatibility with existing 1000BASE-T networks simplifies the transition to 10GbE
• Unified networking delivering LAN, iSCSI and FCoE in one low-cost CNA
• Flexible I/O virtualization for port partitioning and Quality of Service (QoS) of up to 64 virtual ports

System Requirements

• Windows Client: Windows 11/10/ 8.1/8/7
• Windows Server: 2008 R2/ 2012/2012 R2/ 2016/2019/2022
• Linux: RHEL7.9/ 8.4/ 8.5, SLES12SP5, SLES15SP3, Ubuntu18.04LTS/ 20.04LTS, FreeBSD 12.2/13

Specification

• PCI-Express host interface specification v3.0 
• Complies with PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification Rev1.2
• PCI-Express lanes: x4 
• Complies with dual port 10GbE RJ45 copper port 
• Operating Speeds: 10Gb/s, 5Gb/s, 2.5Gb/s, 1Gb/s, 100Mb/s
• 10GBASE-T as per the IEEE 802.3an standard
• 1000BASE-T and 100BASE-TX as per the IEEE Standard 802.3-2012
• NBASE-T as per the IEEE P802.3bz/D1.1 Draft Standard for Ethernet Amendment
• Half duplex at 10/100Mbps operation and full duplex operation at all supported speeds
• Layer 2 functions: IEEE 802.3x Flow Control - IEEE 802.1q VLAN
• Supports receive-side scaling (RSS)
• Supports IPv 4, IPv 6 protocols
• Supports Jumbo Frames up to 15.5K
• Supports UDP.TCP and IP Checksum offloading 
• 128 transmit queues
• Statistics for management and RMON
• Support for 64 virtual machines per port (64VMs x2 queues)
• Support for Data Centre Bridging (DCB) (802.1Qaz, 802.1Qbb, 802.1p)
• Interrupt throttling control to limit maximum interrupt rate and improve CPU usage