Scalable Networking Pack

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Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) is a set of additions adds new features to Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 or later with architectural enhancements and APIs to support the new capabilities of network acceleration and hardware-based offload technologies.

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TCP Chimney Offload – providing seamlessly integrated support for network adapters with TCP Offload Engines (TOE)
Receive-side Scaling – dynamically load-balances inbound network connections across multiple processors or cores
NetDMA – enables support for advanced direct memory access technologies, such as Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel I/OAT)