The 10G NIC Adapter EX-8103PF design hosts the Aquantia AQC100 designed for low-power, low-cost and single-port applications.  Aquantia’s AQtion devices, the AQC100 support 5 and 2.5 GigabitEthernet over SFP, or 2.5/5GBASE-T, and are compliant with the NBASE-T specification and the new IEEE 802.3bz standard that was formally ratified in September 2016. In addition, both devices also support backward compatibility with 100MbE and Gigabit network. The AQtion controller is designed with a PCI Express Gen2/3 x1,x2, x4 for optimal line rate performance connecting to the CPU on the system side.