Dell PowerEdge 1650

Integrated Ethernet Controllers

The PowerEdge 1650 system board includes dual embedded Intel® PRO/1000 XT Network Connection 82544GC Gigabit Ethernet controllers capable of supporting 10 Mb/s, 100 Mb/s, and 1000 Mb/s data rates. The controllers also support load balancing and failover.

This is a picture of the 1650 NIC ports

This single-chip device manages both the MAC and PHY layer functions, and is optimized for LAN on motherboard (LOM) designs, enterprise networking, and Internet appliances that use the PCI or PCI-X buses. The NIC is connected to a 64-bit/66MHz interface PCI bus that supports the PCI Local Bus Specification (revision 2.2).

Key Features of the the Intel Pro 1000:

Supports multi-NOS environments
Power management capabilities
Adapter fault tolerance (AFT) support
Adapter load balancing (ALB) support
Fast Ether Channel (FEC) support
Gigabit Ether Channel (GEC) support
IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation support
802.1Q VLAN support
Wake on LAN support (through Magic packet, pattern recognition and ping)
Full duplex support at both 10 and 100 Mbps operation. (1000 Mbps is always full-duplex by default)
IEEE 802.3u Auto-Negotiation support
Low power 3.3 V device

The embedded Intel® PRO/1000 XT Network Connection provides an interface to the host processor by using on-chip command and status registers and a shared host-memory area. The architecture is optimized to deliver high network performance, PCI/PCI-X bus efficiency, and low CPU utilization. Through hardware acceleration, the controller can offload various tasks from the host processor, such as TCP/UDP/ IP checksum calculations and TCP segmentation.

Fully integrated physical-layer circuitry provides a standard IEEE 802.3 Ethernet interface for 10Base-T, 100Base-TX, and 1000Base-T applications (802.3, 802.3u, 802.3ab). And, with the addition of an appropriate serializer/deserializer (SERDES), the Intel 82544EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller alternatively provides an Ethernet interface for 1000Base-SX or LX applications (802.3z).