Product BriefMarvell® FastLinQ® 45000 Series
Industry Leading 10/25/40/50/100GbE RoCE, iWARP, FCoE, iSCSI, and SR-IOV PCIe® 3.0
Ethernet Controllers
Marvell FastLinQ 45000 Series Ethernet Controllers are a fifth-generation solution
designed for high-volume, converged network applications. The QL45604 supports
speeds of 100Gbps, 50Gbps, 40Gbps, 25Gbps, 10Gbps, and 1Gbps. The QL45204
supports speeds of 25Gbps, 10Gbps, and 1Gbps. Marvell FastLinQ 45000 Series Controllers enable single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV), RDMA over converged Ethernet (RoCE),Internet wide area RMDA protocol (iWARP), iSCSI, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE),
and data center bridging (DCB). They also support PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0, along withembedded virtual bridging and other switching technologies for high-performance DMA
and virtual machine (VM)-to-VM switching.

• Quad-port 10GbE and 25GbE
applications• Dual-port 25GbE, 40GbE, and50GbE applications• Single-port 100GbE
applications• Secure firmware updateprocess with private/public key
encryption technology prevents
hackers from altering adapter• VXLAN, NVGRE, GRE, andGENEVE tunneling offloads• Universal RDMA—RoCE,RoCEv2, and iWARP• NVMe-oF NVMe® over Fabrics
with Universal RDMA and TCP• T10 Protection Information

The Marvell FastLinQ 45000 Series is a complete solution that enables leading-edge
features for the enterprise and cloud (independent of server form-factor), while significantly raising the performance bar. This solution enables stateful and stateless offloads
and includes advanced features such as network virtualization offload, storage offloads,
secure firmware update with private/public key encryption, and FastLinQ SmartAN™ forsimplified connectivity to switches without user intervention.
The QL45604 includes support for single-port 100GBASE, dual-port 50GBASE, dualport 40GBASE, quad-port 25GBASE, and quad-port 10GBASE applications. The
QL45204 includes support for up to quad-port 25GBASE Marvell FastLinQ 45000 Series
Controllers integrate four IEEE 802.3-compliant MACs and support the network
controller-sideband interface (NC-SI). Host-to-baseboard management controller (BMC)
communication is also supported on top of the NC-SI to permit high-speed communication between the local host and the BMC or management controller (MC).
Marvell FastLinQ 45000 Series Controllers enable networked storage using block-basedstorage (iSCSI or FCoE) and file-based storage (CIFS or NFS). Clustering and interprocess
communications (IPC) are supported with RoCE and iWARP. They can simultaneously
support all offload traffic types on each of the ports. Offloading results in superior
storage and networking performance, as well as low CPU utilization, which in turnresults in significant system-level power savings.
Marvell FastLinQ 45000 Series Controllers are designed for PCIe 3.0 and are also
compatible with the PCI Express Base Specification, revisions 2.0 and 1.1. PCIe supports
MSI and MSI-X capabilities. Each port supports multiple physical functions.
Marvell FastLinQ 45000 Series Controllers support IEEE 1588 precision timing protocol(PTP) and IEEE 802.1AS, providing a method of synchronization between master andslave clocks over a LAN.

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Product BriefFeatures

Data Integrity

The FastLinQ 45000 Series Controllers
include the following features:• ECC and byte parity protection

Network Interfaces

Robust Manageability• Blade and dense servers:• Simplifies deployment and troubleshooting using QLogic® Control Suite(QCS) CLI, QConvergeConsole® (QCC)
PowerKit, Unified Extensible Firmware
Interface (UEFI) human interface
infrastructure (HII), in-OS utilities, QCC
Center GUI and ESXCLI Plug-ins‒ 1000BASE-KX‒ 10GBASE-KR‒ 25GBASE-KR-S‒ 40GBASE-KR4‒ 50GBASE-KR2‒ 100GBASE-KR4• Rack, tower, and dense servers:• T-10 CRC

DCB‒ SFF8431 Annex E 10GbE (directattach copper)• Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)(IEEE 802.1Qaz)‒ 1000BASE-CX/SX/LX• Quantized Congestion Notification(QCN)-capable (IEEE 802.1Qau)‒ 10GBASE-T (with external
10GBASE-T PHY)
‒ 10GBASE-SR/LR• Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) (IEEE802.1Qbb)‒ 25GBASE-CR-S• Up to four traffic classes‒ 40GBASE-SR4 and 40GBASE-CR4(direct attach copper)

Forward Error Correction (FEC)‒ 50BASE-CR2‒ 100GBASE-CR4/SR4/LR4iSCSI Controller• Offloaded full Host Bus Adapter (HBA)
functionality iSCSI initiator• iSCSI boot and iSCSI crash dumpsupport• FireCode BASE-R IEEE 802.3-2018
Clause 74 (FC-FEC) on 10G through100G interfaces• Reed Solomon IEEE 802.3-2018 Clause
91 (RS-FEC) on 100G interfaces
Host Interfaces• PCIe 3.0 x16 (8GTps), 2.0 (5GTps), and1.1 (2.5GTps)

FCoE• Offloaded full HBA functionality FCoEinitiator• FCoE bootUniversal RDMA (RoCE/iWARP)• Hardware-based data placement inapplication buffers without CPUintervention (for user and kernelmodes)• Low latency

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Marvell FastLinQ 45000 Series Controllers
Product BriefBenefits
Each FastLinQ 45000 Series Controller isan SR-IOV converged solution—powerand space is optimized for blade, rack,and tower servers, and Converged
Network Adapter (CNA) applications.
FastLinQ 45000 Series Controllers
provide the following benefits:
Extremely Low CPU Utilization for iSCSI,
FCoE, and RDMA Applications• Host CPU is free to run applicationcode• Minimal load on memory subsystemwith zero copy
Accelerated IP-based File and Block
Storage• Lower CPU utilization for file-levelstorage protocols such as CIFS/SMBand NFS• Offloaded and accelerated iSCSI blockstorage with high IOPS and low CPUutilization
Accelerated FCoE
• Offloaded and accelerated FCoE for
Fibre Channel block storage with highIOPS and low CPU utilization
Performance-focused—Optimized forHigh Throughput, Low Latency, and CPU
Utilization• Adaptive interrupt coalescing• Receive side scaling (RSS) reduces CPU
utilization on multi-CPU systems• MSI and MSI-X allow interrupt distribution in a multi-CPU system
Robust and Highly Manageable• NC-SI, Serial gigabit media independent interface (SGMII) for 1Gb BMC
interconnect, Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) overPCIe vendor-defined messages (VDM),and MCTP over system management
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bus (SMB) system management
functionality over sharedinfrastructure• Reliable delivery of management traffic• Pre-execution environment (PXE) v2.1,advanced configuration and powerinterface (ACPI) v2.0b, Wake-on-LAN(WoL)• Host-to-BMC communication forconnectivity between the local hostand the MC or BMC
Server-class Reliability, Availability, andPerformance Features• Network teaming, failover, and loadbalancing‒ Switch independent NIC teaming/bonding‒ Switch dependent NIC teaming/bonding such as link aggregation
control protocol (IEEE 802.3ad LACP)and generic trunking• Switch-independent NIC partitioning(NPAR) with up to 8 partition assignments per adapter, and NIC extendedpartitioning (NPAReP) with up to 16
partition assignments per adapter,
both concurrently available withSR-IOV• Marvell Data Plane Development Kit(DPDK) high-speed packet processing
engine• Marvell Flow Filtering is supported onLinux® using the ethtool -u/-Ucommands. See the See the n-tuple
Flow Filtering and Steering FastLinQ
41000/45000 Series Adapters
Deployment Guide for moreinformation• Comprehensive stateless offloads• Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
support for reduced idle power
consumption in RJ-45-based networks(10GBASE-T variants only)

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PACKAGING• 27mm × 27mm; 676 pins

Ordering Information• QL45604-B0G‒ Supports all speeds: 1Gbps through100Gbps• QL45204-B0G‒ Supports 1Gbps through 25Gbps

Note: All advertised features are enabled in thehardware. Actual feature availability is dependent onsoftware driver releases. See the release notes.

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