Dual-port 40GbE adapter PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0, x8 Exceptional Low Power Adapter Network Virtualization offloads including Geneve, VXLAN and NVGRE Intel Ethernet Flow Director for hardware based application traffic steering Intel Data Plane Developer Kit (DPDK) optimized for efficient packet processing Excellent small packet performance fornetwork appliances and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Intelligent offloads to enable high performance with Intel Xeon servers I/O virtualization innovations for maximum performance in a virtualized server. Unified networking providing a single wire support for LAN and storage: NAS (SMB, NFS) and SAN (iSCSI, FCoE)