Performance and Recommended Use of AB287A 10 Gigabit Ethernet Cards

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Introduction
This article highlights the excellent performance of HP’s PCI-X 133MHz10 Gigabit Ethernet
SR Adapter, AB287A (Figure 1). The performance measurements were done on an HP
Integrity rx7640 server.
This article also provides suggestions based on the performance and technology that will
help you to best meet your business needs.
Figure 1 AB287A: PCI-X 133MHz 10 Gigabit Ethernet SR Adapter
Performance Summary
The AB287A card provides exceptional performance when used in accordance with the
recommendations in this paper. Figure 2 shows the average of sustained transmit,
receive and bidirectional throughput with a Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of 9000
bytes and 1500 bytes as a percentage of the maximum possible bandwidth of the PCI-X