CONNECTX-4 LX

Cost-effective Ethernet Adapter Solution

With increasing workloads, data centers are turning to virtualization strategies to enhance utilization and looking for ways to tackle and data analytic and access to storage. The SmartNIC ConnectX®-4 Lx offers a cost effective solution for delivering the performance, flexibility, and scalability needed to make infrastructure run as efficiently as possible for a variety of demanding markets and applications.

10/25/40/50 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Cards

ConnectX-4 Lx adapter cards enable data centers to leverage leading interconnect adapters to increase their operational efficiency to improve server utilization and maximize application productivity, while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).
ConnectX-4 Lx provides support for 1, 10, 25, 40, and 50GbE bandwidth, sub-microsecond latency and a 70 million packets per second message rate. It includes native hardware support for RDMA over converged Ethernet, Ethernet stateless offload engines, overlay networks, and SmartNIC GPUDirect® Technology.

PORT SPEEDS

2x25/1x50Gb/s

MESSAGE RATE (DPDK)

70 million msgs/sec

PCIE LANES

x8 Gen2/Gen3

ENCRYPTION

N/A

Key Features

Hardware-based I/O virtualization

Multi-Host technology (specific OPNs)

Connectivity to up-to 4 independent hosts (specific OPNs)

Low latency RDMA over Converged Ethernet

CPU offloading of transport operations

Benefits

Highest performing boards for applications requiring high bandwidth, low latency and high message rate

Industry leading throughput and latency for Web 2.0, Cloud and Big Data applications

Cutting-edge performance in virtualized overlay networks

Efficient I/O consolidation, lowering data center costs and complexity

Virtualization acceleration

Ethernet Adapter Brochure

ConnectX-4 Lx Product Brief