The 6-port Ethernet 10Gbps Adapter card has four SFP ports for 1-Gb/s fiber or copper SFP transceivers and two SFP+ ports for 10-Gb/s fiber or copper SFP+ transceivers. The card also supports synchronous Ethernet timing. The 6-port Ethernet 10Gbps Adapter card is designed to complement or replace the 8-port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter card in situations where greater processing power and higher throughput capacity are required.
There are two versions of this card: 6-port Ethernet 10Gbps Adapter card and 6-port Ethernet 10Gbps Adapter card-E. The versions have identical functionality except that the 6-port Ethernet 10Gbps Adapter card-E does not have encryption functionality.
The ports and features on the 6-port Ethernet 10Gbps Adapter card are identical to the ports and features on the 8-port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter card, version 3, except that the 6-port Ethernet 10Gbps Adapter card uses only 4-priority schedulers for QoS instead of 4-priority or 16-priority schedulers.