The FastLinQ 45000 Series Intelligent Ethernet family includes 25GbE and 100GbE adapters with direct attach copper (DAC) connections that support LAN (TCP/IP) traffic at full line-rate speeds and key features for enterprise-class data centers and private/public cloud deployments: Scalable networks with 2.5X bandwidth for 25GbE when compared to 10GbE and more than 2X port density when compared to 40GbE Optimum server performance with PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 x8 (25GbE) and x16 (100GbE) Low latency and high throughput with multi-protocol RDMA with support for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), RoCE v2 and Internet wide area RDMA protocol (iWARP) Enhanced CPU efficiency for networking tunneling with stateless offloads for VXLAN, NVGRE, GRE and GENEVE Advanced server virtualization features such as NPAR and SR-IOV High performance network storage with full protocol offloads for iSCSI, iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) and FCoE Simplified deployment, troubleshooting and lifecycle management using the QLogic QConvergeConsole® GUI, QLogic Control Suite™ CLI, vCenter Plug-in, and OpenStack integration Enhanced management interface with Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) over PCIe support Network boot support for PreBoot Execution Environment (PXE) 2.0