Intel Ethernet Network Adapter E610-XT4 (10GbE Quad Port)

The Intel Ethernet Network Adapter E610-XT4 is a quad-port 10GBASE-T adapter built on Intel's E610 controller silicon, designed to deliver cost-efficient, high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for mainstream enterprise servers. Supporting four independent 10GbE ports over standard Cat6A copper cabling, the adapter enables organizations to consolidate network infrastructure without requiring specialized optical transceivers or direct-attach copper assemblies, reducing overall cabling complexity in rack deployments.

The E610 series integrates Intel's advanced offload capabilities including TCP/IP, UDP, and SCTP checksum offloading, Large Send Offload (LSO), and Receive Side Scaling (RSS), which collectively reduce CPU overhead and improve throughput predictability across virtualized and bare-metal workloads. The adapter supports IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP), and jumbo frames up to 9.5 KB, making it well suited for environments requiring network segmentation, bonded uplinks, and large-payload storage or backup traffic.

Targeted at scale-out server deployments, cloud-managed data centers, and enterprise virtualization hosts, the E610-XT4 connects via a PCIe host interface and is supported under major hypervisors including VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as Linux and Windows Server operating systems. Its 10GBASE-T physical layer provides compatibility with existing structured cabling plants, enabling incremental upgrades from 1GbE infrastructure while delivering the bandwidth headroom required for modern east-west traffic patterns and high-frequency data replication.

Ideal for

• High-density virtualization hosts requiring multiple isolated 10GbE tenant networks without consuming optical SFP+ slots
• Scale-out storage replication and backup workflows where large-payload transfers benefit from jumbo frame support and checksum offload
• Enterprise data center top-of-rack server connectivity using existing Cat6A copper structured cabling infrastructure
• Software-defined networking environments leveraging SR-IOV and VLAN segmentation to partition bandwidth across multiple virtual machines
• Database cluster interconnects where consistent low-latency 10GbE links are needed between nodes for synchronous replication
• Edge compute and branch office server consolidation scenarios requiring multi-port connectivity in a single PCIe adapter slot

Technical specifications

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