Question When and where can we find Intel's new 25-200GbE (E830) and 10GbE (E610) NIC series ?

[Quinn2_Santini3]

Intel has just presented two new NIC series E830 and E610.

Both seem to be refresh of existing E810 ( 100GbE) and X660 (10GbE) with bugfixes, greater energy efficiency and faster PCIe interface.
So now E830 gets PCIe5 option and E610 gets PCIev4.

Both are very interesting even to homebuilder, each for its own reasons:

• E830 in 200GbE version can be split into N 25GbE channels, with for example 4-way split DACs. In a scenario, where one has a star configuration, with one file server and N clients, this way one can skip an expensive and energy hungry switch and connect them directly.
• On client side one can use E830 25GbE and get better energy efficiency and use much less of precious PCIe5 lanes
• E610 would be great for things like firewalls and boxes, looking outside toward ISPs. One such 4x10GbE card could be used to connect to ISPs in an efficient manner while offloading many functions from CPU. As internet speeds increase, why not have a great NIC that can cover 2.5G accounts and anything that might come along in the future ? They also look great for legacy networks - firewall with such a multi NIC and connection to small, efficient 10GbE/Nx2.5GbE switch combo could be great for legacy networking - everything from 100Mbit to 10GbE that one might have around the house.

More data:
Intel Unveils High-Performance, Power-Efficient Ethernet Solutions

Questions:

• when and where to look for them ?
• what are expected prices ?
• is there any more technical info about this, when and where to get it ? It would be nice to know what exactly can new series do...

 

[cruisetung]

These apparently are for enterprise/data centers.

You will not be able to get them on the market any time soon.

 

[Quinn2_Santini3]

Why not ? Their predecessors like X660 and E810 are on the market:

Intel E810 100GbE

 

[bill001g]

You would think all that would be someplace on intel site. Intel might also have announced it at some trade show but you would have to find some web site that in effect advertises to large enterprise IT departments.

Almost nobody is going to care on a site like this that is mostly people building gaming computers. Not so sure how much is left of the enterprise market. Even before you heard of "cloud" stuff large companies where outsourcing their data centers to Dell/HP/etc. Now with everything running in cloud even the medium and small companies save money by not having IT staff.

I am sure these large cloud providers buy lots of this type of stuff but I am not sure where advertising targeting them is done.