- Intel 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller - industry-leading, energy efficient design for 10 Gigabit performance and multi-core processors
- SFP+ connectivity - X520 adapter with SFP+ connections support 10GBASE-SR; 10GBSE-LR and SFP+ copper direct attach physical media
- Low-profile - enables higher bandwidth and throughput from standard and low-profile PCIe slots and servers
- Load balancing on multiple CPUs - increases performance on multi-processor systems by efficiently balancing network loads across CPU cores when used with Receive-Side Scaling from Microsoft
- iSCSI remote boot support - provides centralized storage area network management at a lower cost than other iSCSI solutions
- Fiber Channel over Ethernet support - includes FCoE boot and data center bridging
The Intel Ethernet X520 Converged Network Adapter family addresses the demanding needs of the next-generation data center by providing unmatched features for virtualization, flexibility for LAN and SAN networking, and proven, reliable performance.