Improve application efficiency and network performance with innovative and versatile capabilities that optimize high-performance server workloads such as NFV, storage, HPC-AI and hybrid cloud.

Performance for Cloud Applications
Delivers the bandwidth and increased application throughput required for demanding cloud workloadsincluding edge services, web servers, database applications, caching servers, and storage targets.

• Application Device Queues (ADQ) improves application response time predictability using advanced traffic-steering technology
• Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) enhances packet classification capabilities, to deliver up to 3x throughput improvement for some cloud workloads
• Supports both RDMA iWARP and RoCEv2 for high-speed, low-latency connectivity to storage targets

Optimizations for Communications Workloads
Provides packet classification and sorting optimizations for high-bandwidth network and communications workloads, including mobile core, 5G RAN, and network appliances.

• Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) supports existing and new communications-specific protocols improving packet-processing efficiency up to 3x for some Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) workloads
• IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) v2enables precise clock synchronization across the 5G RAN deployments
• Enhanced Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support increases packet-processing speeds

Versatile Port Configurations with EPCT
E810-CQDA1 and -CQDA2 adapters support a wide range of system configurations to meet customer needs and workload requirements. The many port and speed combinations available simplify validation and deployment.

Intel® Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters include these technologies:

Application Device Queues (ADQ) for Predictability at Scale

As modern data centers scale, a key challenge is to provide scalable, predictable application-level performance. ADQ technology improves performance scalability and predictability by dedicating queues to key workloads, delivering predictable high performance through dramatically reduced jitter.

Increasing the predictability of application response times by lowering jitter enables more compute servers to be assigned to a task and can allow more users to access the system, providing a better end-user experience. Even applications that are not large scale can benefit from higher consistency, enabling them to meet service-level agreements (SLAs) more easily.

ADQ enables application-specific data steering, signaling, and rate limiting using an optimized application thread to device data path. This ability to dedicate queues and shape network traffic not only increases performance, it reduces latency and improves throughput.

Improve Packet Processing Efficiency with Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP)

DDP customizable packet filtering, along with enhanced DPDK, support advanced packet forwarding and highly-efficient packet processing for both Cloud and NFV workloads.

DDP support was first introduced on the Intel Ethernet 700 Series with a few protocols that could be added to the default set defined in the firmware. The Intel Ethernet 800 Series firmware loads an enhanced DDP profile with many workload-specific protocols at driver initialization for greater flexibility. When multiple 800 Series adapters are present in a system, the pipeline on each adapter can be programmed independently with a different DDP profile.