The Most Compact and Cost Effective 2-port Ethernet Controller in the Market With the AOC-SGP-i2, Supermicro has extended the boundaries of Ethernet technology to create the most compact, cost effective, and feature-packed 2-port Ethernet controller in the market, allowing it to fit easily into the tightest high-density server add-on card locations. With ultra-small footprint and rich of power management technology feature set, the AOCSGP-i2 represents the next step in the Gigabit Ethernet networking evolution for enterprise and data center environments
Key Features


• Low-Profile Standard Form Factor


• PCI Express 2.1 (2.5GT/s or 5GT/s)


• 2 RJ-45 ports


• Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (I/O AT)


• VMDq, Next-Generation VMDq, and PC-SIG SR-IOV for Virtualized Environments


• Jumbo Frame Support up to 9.5KB


• IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)


• Low Power Consumption (4W Typical)


• iSCSI Remote Boot Support


• Flexible I/O Virtualization and Quality of Service (QoS)


• PXE Boot Support


• RoHS compliant 6/6





Specifications


• General:


- Intel® i350 GbE controller


- Compact size low-profile standard form factor


- PCI-E 2.1 x4 (2.5GT/s or 5GT/s) interface


- Dual RJ-45 connectors


- Intel® PROSet Utility for Windows® Device Manager


- Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (I/O AT)





• Ethernet Features


- IEEE 802.3 auto-negotiation for speed, duplex, and flow control


- IEEE 802.3x and 802.3z compliant flow control support


- Automatic cross-over detection function (MDI/MDI-X)


- 1Gb/s Ethernet IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, 802.3ab PHY specifications Compliant


- IEEE 1588 protocol and 802.1AS implementation





• Power Management and Efficiency


- IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) which reduces power consumption of the PHY by about 50%


- DMA Coalescing reduces platform power consumption


- Active State Power Management (ASPM) support


- LAN disable function - MAC Power Management controls


- Low Power Link Up Link Speed Control


- Power consumption: 4W





• Virtualization Features


- VM to VM Packet forwarding (Packet Loopback)


- Eight TX and RX queue pairs per port to support VMWare NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ


- Flexible Port Partitioning: 32 Virtual Functions


- PC-SIG SR-IOV implementation


- IEEE 802.1q VLAN support - IEEE 802.1q advanced packet filtering





• Performance Features


- TCP/UDP, IPv4 and IPv6 checksum offloads to improve CPU usage


- Low Latency Interrupts


- Tx TCP segmentation offload (IPv4, IPv6) increases throughput and lowers processor usage


- Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for Windows environment, Scalable I/O for Linux environments


- Jumbo Frames support up to 9.5K Bytes


- Intelligent interrupt generation





• Remote Boot Options


- Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) support


- iSCSI remote boot for Windows, Linux, and VMware





• OS Support


- Windows® XP SP3, Vista SP2, 7 SP1 2003 SP2, 2008 SP2, 2008 R2S


- RedHat EL 5.5, 6.0; SuSe SLES 10 SP3, 11 SP1


- FreeBSD 8.0 - VMware ESX 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 - Xen





• Cables Support - RJ-45 Category-5/5e up to 100m





• Operating Conditions


- Operating temperature: 0°C to 55°C (32°F to 131°F)


- Storage temperature: -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F)





• Physical Dimensions - Card PCB dimensions: 9.91cm (3.90in) x 6.90cm (2.73in) (L x H)


- Height of end brackets: standard 12cm (4.725in), low-profile 7.94cm (3.13in)