Choosing two 10GiGE cards

Andrew Snow andrew at modulus.org
Thu Oct 8 05:45:05 UTC 2009


rihad wrote:
>> The only one worth getting IMO is Intel EXPX9502CX4
>> (INTEL 10 GIGABIT CX4 DUAL PORT SERVER ADAPTER)

> Thanks. What does DUAL PORT mean? It has two jacks? I think one such 
> adapter will be more than enough to replace our two 1000 mbps cards, 
> whether two jacks or not?

Correct, it has two ports on the one card. It uses a PCIe x8 slot so 
plenty of bandwidth to serve two ports.

- Andrew


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