Solarflare X2522-25G-PLUS: High-Performance 25GbE Dual-Port Network Adapter for Enterprise Data Centers
The Solarflare XtremeScale X2522 25Gigabit Ethernet Card represents the pinnacle of high-performance networking, featuring dual SFP28 ports and PCI Express 3.1 x8 connectivity. Engineered specifically for demanding environments such as electronic trading, cloud computing, and enterprise data centers, this network adapter delivers unprecedented low latency and high throughput capabilities essential for artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and machine learning applications.
Ultra-Low Latency Performance for Mission-Critical Applications
The X2522-25G-PLUS leverages Onload® kernel bypass technology to achieve sub-microsecond hardware latency, making it ideal for time-sensitive applications. This advanced network adapter supports both 10GbE and 25GbE connectivity, providing exceptional flexibility for diverse networking requirements.
Advanced Network Acceleration Features
With integrated support for DPDK services and Onload acceleration, this adapter enables up to 4X higher user capacity in cloud networks while maintaining superior reliability and enhanced QoS. The precision time protocol (PTP) fabric service ensures synchronized packet timestamping with nanosecond-level precision.
Key Performance Benefits:
- Dual 25GbE SFP28 ports for maximum throughput
- Sub-microsecond hardware latency
- PCI Express 3.1 x8 interface for optimal server connectivity
- Hardware-assisted packet timestamping
Enterprise-Grade Telemetry and Monitoring
The X2522 features SolarCapture® Pro packet capture software, enabling hardware-level packet capture and timestamping with persistent disk storage capabilities. This functionality is crucial for network performance monitoring, analysis, and regulatory compliance in corporate data centers.
Versatile Workload Support
Optimized for scale-out environments, the X2522 excels in:
- Software-defined networking (SDN)
- Network functions virtualization (NFV)
- Web content optimization
- NoSQL databases and caching tiers
- Video streaming applications
- Financial trading platforms
Technical Specifications
- Form Factor: 6.6" x 2.7" plug-in card
- Network Technology: 25GBase-X
- Media Type: Optical Fiber
- Energy Efficient: Energy Star certified
- Environmental Compliance: RoHS certified
Enterprise-Ready Features
The X2522-25G-PLUS comes equipped with comprehensive enterprise features including hardware support for Onload, TCPDirect, PTP, and SolarCapture Pro, making it a complete solution for high-performance networking requirements in modern data centers.
Xilinx's XtremeScale™ X2522 10/25G dual-port Ethernet network adapters are designed for high-performance electronic trading environments, and cloud and enterprise data centers; including artificial intelligence, big data, analytics, machine learning, storage, and telco applications.
NETWORKINGRecord-breaking low latency and high throughput network adapters provide real-time packet and flow information to thousands of virtual NICs. This combination of ultra-high bandwidth, ultra-low latency, ultra-scale connectivity, and packet telemetry allows X2 series adapters to scale with each server, virtual machine or container.
ACCELERATION For electronic trading environments, Onload® kernel bypass application acceleration and DPDK services deliver superior small packet performance with sub-microsecond hardware latency.
Onload dramatically accelerates and scales network-intensive workloads such as in-memory databases, software load balancers, and web servers. With Onload, data centers can support 4X or more users on their cloud network while delivering improved reliability, enhanced quality of service (QoS), and a higher return on investment, without modification to existing applications.
In addition, X2522 adapters support the precision time protocol (PTP) fabric service for apps that require synchronized time stamping of packets down to single-digit nanosecond resolution.
TELEMETRY SolarCapture® Pro packet capture software enables X2522 adapters to capture and time stamp packets in hardware, persist packet to disk, and replay packets streams. This feature provides the essential ingredient for corporate data centers to run applications such as high-precision network performance monitoring, analysis, and regulatory compliance.
WORKLOADSThe X2522 adapters are ideal for scale-out cloud, web, and CDN application environments. Use cases include softwaredefined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), web content optimization, DNS acceleration, web firewalls, load balancing, NoSQL databases, caching tiers (Memcached), web proxies, video streaming, and storage networks.
X2522 adapters speed up TCP, unicast, multicast and UDP traffic for a wide variety of trading applications. From missioncritical exchange gateways and matching engines on the financial exchange side, to feed handlers, order routing, algorithmic trading engines, messaging applications, order execution, data distribution and client communications on the trading side, XtremeScale network adapters are considered the de facto standard in electronic trading environments.
