IBM #EN17 PCIe3 4-port 10 GbE SFP+ Copper Adapter (also #EN18) for IBM Power Systems

IBM feature #EN17 is the PCIe3 4-port 10 GbE SFP+ Copper Adapter, CCIN 2CE4, for IBM Power Systems. Feature #EN18, the PCIe3 LPX 4-port 10 GbE SFP+ Copper Adapter, is the same adapter as a low-profile version, while #EN17 is the full-height version. The adapter is a PCI Express generation 3, x8, short form-factor card with four 10 Gb small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) ports that take copper twinax transceivers.

Active copper twinax cables up to 5 m are supported, such as #EN01 (1 m, part 46K6182), #EN02 (3 m, 46K6183) and #EN03 (5 m, 46K6184), and a transceiver is included with these cables. The adapter supports the Ethernet network interface controller (NIC) function and SR-IOV NIC support on any of the four ports with the appropriate firmware and operating system level; enabling SR-IOV requires an HMC. AIX Network Installation Management, interrupt moderation, multiple MAC addresses per interface and integrated MAC and PHY are supported.

Standards covered include IEEE 802.3ae for the 10 GbE ports, 802.3ad link aggregation, load-balancing and failover, 802.1Q VLAN tagging, 802.1p priority levels and 802.3x flow control. The adapter provides MSI, MSI-X and legacy pin interrupts, jumbo frames up to 9.6 KB, and TCP and UDP checksum offload and TCP segmentation offload for IPv4 and IPv6. The adapter FRU number is 00ND463 for both feature codes, the full-height tailstock part number is 00ND465, and the twinax wrap plug FRU is 74Y7010. The voltage is 3.3 V.