Cease my still beating heart
Intel has lifted the wrappers on a 10GBase-t network adapter
which sports a pair of 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. The X52-T2 adapter
would be the first to have two ports
on a single adapter.
Designed for servers, the PCI-Express card will
support connection distances of up to 100 meters. In its press release Intel said that by placing a pair of
ports on the card, administrators will have a redundant connection in
case anything went bang.
It means that administrators can pair the connections to
create a single pipeline running at 20GbE speeds. The cards are the first to use Intel's Single Root I/O
Virtualisation platform. This is designed to provide better
communication between physical network inputs and virtualized machines. This
means that virtualized systems can operate at nearly identical
speeds to direct physical I/O connections.
No word on price yet.