Converged network adapter
A converged network adapter (CNA), also called a converged network interface controller (C-NIC), is a computer input/output device that combines the functionality of a
Support
Some products were marketed around 2005 with the term C-NIC which combined iSCSI storage functionality with Gigabit Ethernet. Later products used the marketing term converged network adapter (CNA), combining Fibre Channel over Ethernet with 10 Gigabit Ethernet, for example.
Brocade
Brocade Communications Systems offers two types of CNAs, with PCI Express generation 2.0 interfaces. The only difference between the two models are the number of interfaces on the cards: one or two. The two port model will allow connection to two different switches to create a redundant configuration without having to use two PCI slots.[1]
Broadcom
In 2009
Emulex
Emulex offers CNAs under the Emulex brand name as the OneConnect ten Gigabit series of dual port optical and copper adapters. They also OEM their adapters for Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, HDS, HP, IBM and NetApp.[3]
QLogic
Hewlett-Packard
HP claims that their BL460c G7 was the first blade server that offers
Dell
Cisco
Intel
References
- ^ "Brocade 1010 and 1020 Converged Network Adapters (CNAs)". Brocade website. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ^ Frank Berry Blog on Network Computing: Broadcom unveils CNA, 29 January 2010, visited: 31 July 2011
- ^ Emulex web site:Emulex 10GbE FCoE Converged Network Adapters, visited March 5, 2012
- ^ QLogic website: QLogic launches 8100 CNA Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, visited 31 July 2011
- ^ EMC joins QLogix CNA club, November 2010, visited 31 July 2011
- ^ ITBrand Pulse HP embeds 10Gb CNA Archived 2011-11-10 at the Wayback Machine, January 2011, downloaded: 31 July 2011
- ^ Storage Strategies Now report (republished on Qlogic website): Dell chooses QLogic Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Deni Connor, December 2009, visited: 31 July 2011
- ^ Cisco website [1], visited 30 October 2013
- ^ Timothy Prickett Morgan (June 13, 2011). "Cisco gooses switching, virtual I/O for blades: Servers not yet crossing Sandy Bridge". The Register. Retrieved March 27, 2017.