Key Features. Protect Your Business Network & Your Data. The HPE Ethernet 10 Gb 2-port BCM957416 Adapter provides traceability into authenticated firmware updates by capturing changes in standard system logs via Audit Logs. Safeguards the NIC & verify no rogue drivers are being executed on start-up with Secure Boot. Authenticates updates for NICs that signed firmware is correct & trusted to reduce rogue firmware installation Increase I/O Bandwidth for Workload Intensive Applications. The HPE Ethernet 10 Gb 2-port BCM57416 Adapter delivers single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) which increases virtual network performance while decreasing CPU utilization. Reduces CPU Utilization & helps improve host VM density & server efficiency using remote direct memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (Ro CE v 2) for Live Migration Microsoft SMB Direct environments Affordable Network Performance. The HPE Ethernet 10 Gb 2-port BCM57416 Adapter provides a seamless performance upgrade from 1GBASE-T to 10GBASE-T with backward compatibility. Offloads packet processing to reduce CPU utilization & lower power with Tunnel Offloads (VXLAN & NVGRE). Speeds packet processing to service more I/O requests utilizing data plane development packet (DPDK). .