| Figure
1-1. |
Typical LAN architecture |
2 |
| Figure 2-1. |
IEEE 802 standards |
8 |
| Figure 2-2. |
IEEE 802.3 basic frame format |
9 |
| Figure 2-3. |
Ethernet physical layer |
11 |
| Figure 2-4. |
10G Ethernet physical layer |
13 |
| Figure 2-5. |
Optical module size, power, and estimated price |
17 |
| Figure 2-6. |
TCP segment format |
21 |
| Figure 3-1. |
PCI Express system connections |
26 |
| Figure 3-2. |
Linux network-stack simplified diagram |
28 |
| Figure 3-3. |
Typical blade-server architecture |
30 |
| Figure 4-1. |
GbE controller simplified block diagram |
34 |
| Figure 4-2. |
Stateless 10GbE controller simplified block diagram |
34 |
| Figure 4-3. |
Block diagram of typical GbE switch |
37 |
| Figure 5-1. |
10GbE NIC 2006
market share (units) |
40 |
| Figure 5-2. |
GbE controller
2006 market share (revenue) |
41 |
| Figure 5-3. |
10GbE switch and NIC/LOM
shipment forecast, 2005–2010 |
42 |
| Figure 6-1. |
Broadcom BCM57710 single-XFP NIC reference design |
52 |
| Figure 7-1. |
Chelsio S320E-CX dual-CX4 NIC |
57 |
| Figure 10-1. |
NetEffect NE020 dual-CX4 PCIe NIC |
71 |
| Figure 12-1. |
NetXen NXB-10G single-CX4 NIC |
79 |