Standards and compatibility - Compatible with IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T, IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX, IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T - Supports IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet - Supports IEEE 802.3x Flow Control - Supports IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging - Supports IEEE 802.1p Layer 2 Priority Encoding - Includes support for IEEE 802.1P Layer 2 Priority Coding - Supports IEEE 802.3az-2010 - Supports IEEE 802.3bz-2016 NGBASET Performance and capabilities - Jumbo frames up to 16K bytes - Virtual Machine Queuing (VMQ) - Quad-core Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) - Switching, skew correction, cross detection, and auto-correction Network mode and timing - Network Mode: 2.5G and 1G Lite modes - Time synchronization: IEEE 1588v1, IEEE 1588v2, IEEE 802.1AS Use scenarios - Virtualized data centers and server closets requiring VMQ and RSS for high-throughput VMs with efficient traffic distribution - Enterprise networks that use VLANs and QoS, benefiting from advanced tagging and priority encoding - Time-sensitive applications such as financial trading or telecom infrastructure that need precise network timing and synchronization (IEEE 1588 and 802.1AS)