A Guide to 10G Ethernet Controllers and Adapters,
Third Edition
     
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Figure 1-1. Typical LAN architecture
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Figure 1-2. Storage-networking model
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Figure 1-3. Typical data-center architecture
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Figure 2-1. IEEE 802 standards
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Figure 2-2. IEEE 802.3 basic frame format
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Figure 2-3. Ethernet physical layer
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Figure 2-4. 10G Ethernet physical layer
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Figure 2-5. 40G/100G Ethernet layer model
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Figure 2-6. Optical module size, power, and estimated price
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Figure 2-7. TCP segment format
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Figure 3-1. PCI Express system topology
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Figure 3-2. Linux network-stack simplified diagram
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Figure 3-3. Typical blade-server architecture
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Figure 4-1. Stateless 10GbE controller simplified block diagram
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Figure 5-1. 10GbE NIC/LOM 2008 market share (ports)
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Figure 5-2. 10GbE switch and NIC/LOM shipment forecast, 2008–2013
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Figure 6-1. Broadcom BCM57711 dual-SFP+ NIC reference design
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Figure 7-1. Chelsio S320E-CR dual-SFP+ NIC
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Figure 8-1. Intel X520-SR2 dual-port SFP+ NIC
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Figure 9-1. Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN dual-port SFP+ NIC
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Figure 10-1. Myricom Myri-10G SFP+ NIC
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Figure 11-1. Neterion X3120 SR dual-port NIC
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Figure 12-1. QLogic QLE3142 dual-SFP+ NIC
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