Product Brief

Intel® Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters

Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter

E810-XXVDA2
10/25GbE network adapter optimized to meet the performance needs for
dynamic workloads
Key Features
• Dual Port SFP28 • Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP)
• PCI Express (PCIe) 4.0 x8 • Supports both RDMA iWARP and RoCEv2
• Application Device Queues (ADQ) • IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP)

Intel® Ethernet 800 Series network adapters improve application efficiency and network performance with
innovative and versatile capabilities. With two 25GbE SFP28 ports and key performance optimizations, the
E810-XXVDA2 supports solutions across Cloud, Enterprise, and Communications.

Performance optimizations for Cloud, Enterprise, Accelerated packet processing for Communications
and Storage deployments workloads
• Application Device Queues (ADQ) provides • Enhanced Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
dedicated traffic queues to reduce latency and support increases packet processing speeds
increase application throughput • Dynamic Device Personalization enables protocol-
• Dynamic Device Personalization enables protocol- specific traffic acceleration and reduces CPU
specific traffic acceleration to improve packet overhead for emerging high-bandwidth workloads
processing efficiency and reduce CPU overhead
• IEEE 1588 PTP v2 support enables precise clock
• iWARP and RoCEv2 support provides high-speed, synchronization across 5G RAN deployments
low-latency, high-throughput connectivity for storage
targets and initiators

Flexible Configurations
Intel® Ethernet Optics, and specification-compliant Active Optical Cables and Direct Attach Cables, can support
multiple configurations.

E810-XXVDA2 Intel® Ethernet SFP28 Optics

(SR, and SR and LR extended temp)
All 800 Series products include these technologies
Greater Predictability at Scale The 800 Series firmware loads an enhanced DDP
As modern data centers scale, a key challenge is profile with many workload-specific protocols at
to provide scalable, predictable application-level driver initialization for greater flexibility. When
performance. Application Device Queues (ADQ) multiple 800 Series adapters are present in a system,
technology improves performance scalability and the pipeline on each adapter can be programmed
predictability by dedicating queues to key workloads, independently with a different DDP profile.
delivering predictable high performance through
dramatically reduced jitter. Increase Timing Accuracy
Increasing the predictability of application response Intel Ethernet 800 Series supports both IEEE
times by lowering jitter enables more compute 1588 PTP v1 and v2 with two-step option. The
servers to be assigned to a task and can allow more products provide increased accuracy at single-digit
users to access the system, providing a better nanosecond level, and can report the reception
end-user experience. Even applications that are not time for every packet. This level of timing accuracy
large scale can benefit from higher consistency, can help ensure tight synchronization across
enabling them to meet service-level agreements network deployments ranging from 5G RAN
(SLAs) more easily. to financial services, industrial automation, and
energy monitoring.
ADQ enables application-specific data steering,
signaling, and rate limiting using an optimized Protect, Detect, and Recover
application thread to device data path. This ability
to dedicate queues and shape network traffic not Zero Trust is a security design strategy centered on
only increases performance, it reduces latency and the belief that organizations, by default, should not
improves throughput. automatically trust any request for system access.
This includes requests coming from outside, as
Increase Throughput and Lower Latency well as inside its perimeters. Zero Trust demands
that every access request be verified before
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) provides granting access.
high throughput and low-latency performance
for modern high-speed Ethernet by eliminating The 800 Series implements a design philosophy of
three major sources of networking overhead: TCP/ platform resiliency with 3 attributes compliant with
IP stack process, memory copies, and application the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, including NIST
context switches. Intel Ethernet 800 Series Network 800-193 Platform Firmware Resiliency Guidelines:
Adapters support all Ethernet-based storage Protect, Detect and Recover. By design, the Hardware
transport, including iWARP, RoCEv2, and NVMe Root of Trust in the 800 Series protects the firmware
over Fabric. and critical device settings with authentication for
every access. Signed firmware updates and the
RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet): RoCEv2 Hardware Root of Trust protects and verifies critical
substitutes the InfiniBand physical layer and data link device settings with built-in corruption detection and
layer with Ethernet, operates on top of UDP/IP, and is automated device recovery. Together these features
routable over IP networks. ensure the device safely returns to its originally
iWARP, IETF standard protocols based: Delivers programmed state.
RDMA on top of the pervasive TCP/IP protocol.
iWARP RDMA runs over standard network and
transport layers and works with all Ethernet network
infrastructure. TCP provides flow control and
congestion management and does not require a
lossless Ethernet network. iWARP is a highly routable For more information about
and scalable RDMA implementation. Intel® Ethernet Technologies,
Improve Packet Processing Efficiency including videos and resource
libraries, visit intel.com/ethernet
Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) customizable
packet filtering, along with enhanced DPDK, supports
advanced packet forwarding and highly-efficient
packet processing for both Cloud and NFV workloads.

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Intel® Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters designed
with Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-XXVAM2 include
these features¹.

Host Interface • ACLs Manageability

• Compliance with PCIe 4.0 - 8K programmable TCAM entries • SMBus operating at up to 1Mb/s
• Concurrency for 256 non-posted requests - Tiling capability to n*40b width • DMTF-compliant NC-SI 1.1 Interface at
100Mb/s
• Classification Filters
Software Interface • MCTP over PCIe and SMBus
• Base mode VF compatibility with Intel® - Hash-based statistical distribution
Adaptive Virtual Functions Specification - Intel® Ethernet Flow Director (Intel® • Enterprise-level management schemes via
Ethernet FD) flow-based classification local BMC
• Tx/Rx Queues
- Flow-based identification of iWARP and • SNMP and RMON statistic counters
- 2048 Tx queues and 2048 Rx queues
RoCE flows
• Watchdog timer
- Dynamic allocation of queues to
- Programmable rules
functions and VSIs • PLDM over MCTP; PLDM Monitoring;
• Modifier PLDM firmware update; PLDM for RDE
• Interrupts
- Insert (Tx), remove (Rx), and modify of • Firmware Management Protocol support
- 2048 interrupts vectors, allocated in
packet VLANs
a flexible manner to queues and
other causes - L3 and L4 checksums and CRC Power Management
- Multiple interrupt moderation schemes • Supports PCI power management states
Virtualization D3hot and D3cold
- 20M interrupts/sec • Host virtualization via VMDQ and SR-IOV
• Control Queues (a.k.a. Admin Queues) • Up to 256 SR-IOV Virtual Functions Time Synchronization
- Mailbox Queues for PF-VF and • Time stamp with each Rx packet
driver-driver • Stateless offloads for tunneled packets
(network virtualization support) • Selective time stamps for Tx packets
- Admin Queues for Software-Firmware
control flows • Malicious VF protection • IEEE 1588 PTP v1 and v2
- Sideband Queues for Software to access • Virtual machine load balancing (VMLB) • Time synchronization signaling with other
IPs inside the E810 local platform ingredients
• Advanced packet filtering
• 256 Tx Doorbell (DB) Queues
• VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion, Pre-Boot
• 512 Tx Completion Queues stripping and packet filtering for up to 4096 • Signed UEFI option ROM compatible with
VLAN tags HTTPS boot
• Quanta Descriptor (QD) Queue per Tx
queue. Quanta information is also • VxLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE, MPLS, VxLAN-
embedded in the Tx doorbell GPE with Network Service Headers (NSH) Security
• Programmable Rx descriptor fields • Hardware-based Root of Trust
• Intel® Ethernet Adaptive Virtual
Function drivers • Authentication on NVM Read and Power On
Packet Processing
RDMA • Built-in detection of firmware/critical setting
• Enhanced Data Plane Development Kit corruption with automated device recovery
(DPDK) • iWARP and RoCEv2
• General • 256K Queue Pairs (QPs)
- Stages of parsing, switching, ACLs, • Send Queue Push Mode
classification, packet modification
Note: RDMA is not supported when the E810
- Programmable packet processing is configured for >4-port operation.
pipeline
- Profile based QoS
- Programmable actions • WFQ Transmit scheduler with nine
programmable layers
- Propagation of priorities between stages
• Pipeline sharing and starvation avoidance
• Parser • QoS via 802.1p PCP or Differentiated
- Parses up to 504B from packet header Services Code Point (DSCP) value
- Parse Graph based • Packet shaping
- Session-based parsing
- Programmable parse engine
• Binary Classifier (VEB Switch)
- 768 switch ports (VSIs)
- Programmable forwarding rules
- Storm Control
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 Adapter Features Product Order Code
Data Rate Supported 25/10/1GbE per port Configuration Product Code
Bus Type/Bus Width PCIe 4.0 x8 Dual Port low profile E810XXVDA2, E810XXVDA2BLK
Hardware Certifications FCC B, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, RCM, KCC
RoHS-compliant Product is compliant with EU RoHS Directive 2
2011/65/EU (Directive 2011/65/EU) and its
Power Consumption
amendments (e.g. 2015/863/EU) DACs Typical Power Max Power
Controller Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-XXVAM2 25GbE Max 8.9 W 9.8 W
Bracket Full-height bracket installed Idle (no traffic) 8.0 W 8.8 W
Low-profile bracket included in package
Optics
Dimension 6.57 in x 2.67 in (167 mm x 68 mm)
25GbE Max 12.1 W 13.7 W
Idle (no traffic) 11.6 W 12.6 W
Supported Physical Layer Interfaces SFP28 Max Power Per Port* 1.5 W
25Gbps 10Gbps *The max power per port is not an additional power requirement, it is included
DACs 25GBASE-CR SFP+ Twinax in the optics maximum power figures listed in the Power Consumption table.
(802.3by 25Gb Twinax)
Optics and AOCs 25GBASE-SR 10GBASE-SR
25GBASE-LR 10GBASE-LR

Technical Specifications
Airflow* Extended Temp 1.5W Optics Commercial Temp DAC: Commercial Temp 1.5W Optics
100 LFM at 45 °C Ambient 100 LFM at 45 °C Ambient 150 LFM at 45 °C Ambient
100 LFM at 55 °C Ambient 100 LFM at 55 °C Ambient 350 LFM at 55 °C Ambient
150 LFM at 60 °C Ambient 150 LFM at 60 °C Ambient

Storage Humidity Maximum: 90% non-condensing relative humidity at 35 °C

Storage Temperature -40 °C to 70 °C (-40 °F to 158 °F)
Operating Temperature 0 °C to 55 °C (32 °F to 131 °F)
LED Indicators ACTIVITY (blinking) NO ACTIVITY (off) LINK SPEED (green = 25GbE; amber = less than 25GbE; off = no link)
*Testing performed in a closed-loop wind tunnel at the temperatures listed in table. Max operating ambient temperature 60 °C. Non-operating ambient temperature
range: -40 °C to +70 °C

Supported Operating Systems Intel® Ethernet Optics

For a complete list of supported network operating systems for Combine high-density Ethernet connections with Intel® Ethernet
Intel® Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters visit: 800 Series Network Adapters for dependable interoperability and
intel.com/support/EthernetOS consistent performance across the network. Intel Ethernet Optics
have been extensively tested for compatibility with Intel Ethernet
Network Adapters. Learn more at intel.com/ethernetproducts

Warranty
Intel limited lifetime hardware warranty, 90-day money-back
guarantee (US and Canada) and worldwide support.

Customer Support Product Information

For customer support options in North America visit: For information about Intel® Ethernet products and technologies
intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/contact-support.html visit: intel.com/ethernet

1. See the Intel® Ethernet Controller E810 Datasheet for the full list of product features.

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