Dell 25GbE Dual-Port SFP28 PCIe Adapter (Intel E810)

The Dell 25GbE Dual-Port SFP28 PCIe Adapter is based on the Intel E810 controller architecture, providing two independent 25 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a single PCIe card form factor. This adapter is purpose-built for Dell PowerEdge R760 and R760xa servers, enabling enterprises to achieve wire-speed performance with minimal CPU overhead through Intel's advanced packet processing and offload capabilities. The E810 controller integrates comprehensive traffic management, quality-of-service, and security features optimized for modern data center networking requirements.

Designed specifically for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and server virtualization deployments, this dual-port NIC eliminates network bottlenecks in environments requiring sustained high-throughput data movement between compute nodes, storage systems, and virtual machines. The adapter supports standard 25GbE SFP28 transceiver modules, allowing flexible fiber connectivity over both short-reach and long-distance deployments. With dual-port architecture on a single card, it reduces PCIe slot consumption while delivering aggregate 50 Gbps per-port performance.

Launched in Q4 2022, this adapter has achieved strong adoption volumes across Dell's enterprise customer base, particularly in software-defined data centers, Kubernetes container platforms, and analytics workloads where network performance directly impacts application latency and throughput. The Intel E810 foundation ensures broad ecosystem support, comprehensive driver availability across major hypervisors, and alignment with emerging SmartNIC capabilities for future network function offloading.

Ideal for

• Hyperconverged infrastructure clusters requiring high-speed inter-node replication, live VM migration, and distributed storage I/O consolidation
• Kubernetes container platforms and cloud-native environments deploying high-performance pod-to-pod networking and service mesh data planes
• Real-time analytics platforms and data warehouses performing large-scale data ingestion and distributed query processing across server clusters
• VMware vSAN and Microsoft S2D deployments optimizing storage traffic isolation from management traffic through dual-port segmentation
• Software-defined networking (SDN) environments requiring consistent low-latency packet processing and advanced traffic steering capabilities
• Machine learning inference platforms consolidating multi-GPU training with 25GbE network connectivity for distributed parameter server communication

Technical specifications

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