- Sun Neptune
Neptune, also known as Sun Multithreaded 10 GbE, is a dual 10 Gbit/s, multithreaded, PCIe x8-based
network card . It was developed and originally produced bySun Microsystems , and later licensed to Marvell [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/03/marvell_sun_nicsic/] .A Neptune-based NIC is integrated in
UltraSPARC T2 CPUs (Network Interface Unit, or NIU) [http://blogs.sun.com/puresee/entry/10_gigabit_ethernet_on_ultrasparc 10 Gigabit Ethernet on UltraSPARC T2 - weblog from Pure See ] ] .NIC Features
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Network card
*PCI Express External links
* [http://www.sun.com/products/networking/ethernet/10gigethernet/specs.xml Sun's Neptune Specs]
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