The Allied Telesis ANC100QP PCIe 4.0 Ethernet controller is designed to build highlyscalable, feature-rich networking solutions in servers for enterprise and cloudscale networking and storage applications, including high-performance computing, telco, machine learning, storage disaggregation, and data analytics. It combines a highbandwidth Ethernet controller with a unique set of highly-optimized hardware acceleration engines to enhance network performance and improve server efficiency.

Hardware Acceleration

With its market-leading hardware acceleration technologies, the ANC100QP Series PCIe 4.0 Ethernet controller addresses these performance and service demands of megascale data center networks with high throughput and advanced flow processing. Features such as TruFlow™ increase VM density up to 50 percent, freeing more CPU cycles for additional virtual machines. On-chip tunneling protocol processing for Geneve, VXLAN, and NVGRE provides up to a 5X throughput increase while lowering CPU utilization up to 90 percent compared to software-only solutions. NetXtreme®-E Series solutions also support advanced networking technologies such as RoCE, SDN and NFV, to facilitate the management of data networks and to enable service provider solutions.

Optimized for virtualization

Using 100G cards in virtualized environments is critical to the application in order to provide the data connectivity needed for the workloads in virtual machines. Due to specific slot limitations, it is usually recommended that virtualized servers use 100 Gigabit or higher ports to satisfy the I/O demands.

Superior functionality

The ANC100QP features TruFlow™, RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), Stateless Offloads, and Congestion Avoidance.

More bandwidth with PCIe

The PCI-Express (PCIe) design provides the maximum possible bandwidth and bus efficiency. Other benefits include capability and low power consumption.

Performance and reliability

Allied Telesis validates its Network Adapters over a variety of operating systems and platforms, ensuring compatibility. The ANC100QP takes full advantage of the PCI-Express bus architecture to maximize network throughput. Teaming enables Smart Load Balancing (SLB), which helps increase throughput and fault tolerance when multiple adapters are configured to share traffic and provide data reliability with failover.

NIC Partitioning

The ANC100QP provides an unprecedented level of governance across the entire network, enabling detailed tests, analysis, and diagnostics for each network adapter installed in the system. It includes utilities to help configure VLANs and set up teams for link aggregation, SLB, failover, and more.

The ANC100QP includes a comprehensive Microsoft Windows utility which performs detailed tests, diagnostics and analysis.

RoCE

The ANC100QP hardware supports RoCEv2 & RoCEv1 simultaneously. RoCE is a protocol that allows Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) traffic to be communicated over ethernet. With Broadcom's smart Congestion Control, RoCEv2 can be enabled without DCB.