The BCM5709 is part of the NetXtreme II family of C-NICs converged network interface controllers. By delivering 2.5 Gigabit networking throughput with convergence technology designed to boost server performance (i.e. TCP/IP offload engine, iSCSI, and Remote Direct Memory Access), QLogic's BCM5709 is able to more than double the throughput of standard Gigabit networking while decreasing overall CPU utilization by up to 5 times. Designed as a cost-point replacement to existing 1GbE implementations, the 2.5 Gigabit QLogic NetXtreme II C-NIC is optimized for embedded blade server applications.