Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) / IEEE 802.3az enabled Backward compatible with multi-speed support for 5/2.5/1G, 10GBASE-T, and 100BASE-TX PCI Express (PCIe v3.0 x8) FCC Class B for EMI Network Virtualization offloads including VXLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE, MPLS, and VXLAN-GPE with Network Service Headers (NSH) Intel® Ethernet Flow Director for hardware based application traffic steering Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) enables increased packet processing efficiency for NFV and Cloud deployments Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) optimized for efficient packet processing Excellent small packet performance for network appliances and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) I/O virtualization innovations for maximum performance in a virtualized server