Vecow FE-1071 Low-Profile Dual 10GbE SFP+ Wide-Temperature PCIe Expansion Card

Systems that move large data sets between machines, or across a site over fibre, need 10GbE ports that take optical transceivers rather than copper. The FE-1071 is Vecow’s answer for a compact chassis: a low-profile LAN card with two 10 Gigabit SFP+ ports. It is a standalone model rather than part of a series, and we fit it to systems we build where fibre uplinks are part of the design.

Both SFP+ ports run at 10 Gbps and are driven by an Intel Ethernet Controller X710-BM2. Vecow describes the links as IEEE 802.3 Ethernet over optical fibre, and the transceiver choice sits with the system design. The host interface is PCI Express x4. The controller handles jumbo frames up to 9728 bytes and link aggregation, and it supports Wake-on-LAN and PXE boot.

For timing and traffic control the card supports IEEE 1588 PTP and IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, which helps keep several data streams separate and time-aligned on one host. There is no PoE on this model. Where the cabling is copper instead of fibre, the LE-1055 carries two 10GBASE-T RJ45 ports, and the PE-5002 adds IEEE 802.3at PoE+ to 10GBASE-T. Our SFP+ versus RJ45 FAQ compares the two cabling routes for 10GbE.

The board measures 168 x 64 mm in the PCIe low-profile format. A full-height bracket is standard and a low-profile bracket is optional, so the same card fits either slot height. It carries a heat sink over the controller. Vecow rates the card from -40 to 55 °C operating and -40 to 85 °C storage, at 5 to 95% humidity, non-condensing, and lists CE and FCC. The datasheet does not list operating system support.