HP NC360T PCI Express Dual Port Gigabit Server Adapter


10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet transfer rate delivers outstanding network performance that improves

response time and removes bottlenecks. Because the NC360T supports both 10Mbps Ethernet and

100Mbps Fast Ethernet in addition to Gigabit Ethernet, users are guaranteed end-to-end protocol

support across their enterprise.


HP was an early champion of PCI Express bus technology and has played a key role in the development

and industry adoption of the PCI Express specification. The NC360T features a high performance Intel

82571EB chipset and offers a four lane (x4) PCI Express bus based on the PCIe v1.0a standard, yielding

faster transmissions with lower CPU utilization than earlier solutions.


Transmit Load Balancing (TLB) and Switch-assisted Load Balancing (SLB) are two advanced features that

customers can use to build a bigger pipe for improved networking bandwidth. These port bonding

techniques enable users to install up to four dual-port NC360T adapters (total of 8 ports) in a HP

ProLiant server and aggregate their throughput up to a theoretical maximum of 16 Gigabits per second

full-duplex transmissions.


Jumbo Frames (also known as Extended Frames) offer a 9K byte Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU),

which is six times the size of traditional Ethernet frames. Like all HP ProLiant server adapters, the NC360T

supports jumbo frames as a way to achieve higher throughput and better CPU utilization when deployed

in a network infrastructure that supports them. Jumbo frames are particularly useful for database transfers

and tape backups.


Two Gigabit ports allow users to save slots in situations where their servers are slot-constrained. HP has

long been an advocate of dual port adapters for servers; the NC360T is the latest in our legacy of best