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offers CNAs via their QLogic 8200 & 8300 series Converged Network Adapters. They offer single and dual port PCI cards with copper or optical fibre interfaces. QLogic CNAs are available under the QLogic brandname and as OEM cards. The QME CNA and drivers were supported by
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generation 2.0 interfaces. The only difference between the two models are the number of interfaces on the cards: one or two. The two port model will allow connection to two different switches to create a redundant configuration without having to use two PCI slots.
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offers CNAs under the Emulex brand name as the OneConnect ten Gigabit series of dual port optical and copper adapters. They also OEM their adapters for Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, HDS, HP, IBM and NetApp.
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use the custom made dual-port mezzanine card QME8142. For the normal tower and rack servers Dell offers an OEM version of the standard QME8152.
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and other related components to others. Their intended customers are the larger builders of server systems such as
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entered the CNA market. Broadcom offers their CNAs under their own brand name but also sell the
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Some products were marketed around 2005 with the term C-NIC which combined
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HP claims that their BL460c G7 was the first blade server that offers
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is really a marketing term, as they sell the X710-DA2/DA4 adapters
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Storage Strategies Now report (republished on Qlogic website):
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Index

host bus adapter
network interface controller
converges
storage area network
computer network

iSCSI
Gigabit Ethernet
Fibre Channel over Ethernet
10 Gigabit Ethernet
Brocade Communications Systems
PCI Express
Broadcom
application-specific integrated circuits
Dell
HP
mezzanine card
blade servers
Emulex
QLogic
Citrix
NetApp
EMC
IBM
FCoE
Dell
PowerEdge
M1000e
Cisco Systems
Unified Computing System

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