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The Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 dual-port SFP+ adapter card with TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) and iSCSI offload is the fourth-generation of Convergence Network Interface Cards (C-NIC). The BCM57711 is the next-generation in C-NIC, combining offload technology with standard Ethernet functionality. Together, these features provide the necessary performance and bandwidth critical to I/O intensive applications such as virtualization and High Performance Computing (HPC).