CONNECTX-5

Advanced Offload Capabilities for the Most Demanding Applications

SmartNIC adapters offer advanced hardware offloads to reduce CPU resource consumption and drive extremely high packet rates and throughput. This boosts data center infrastructure efficiency and provides the highest performance and most flexible solution for Web 2.0, Cloud, Data Analytics and Storage platforms.

Single/Dual-Port 100Gb/s Ethernet Adapter

ConnectX-5 Ethernet adapter cards provide a high performance and flexible solution that deliver a range of innovative offloads and accelerators in hardware for increased efficiency for data center network and storage connectivity. ConnectX-5 adapter cards bring advanced Open vSwitch offloads to telecommunications and cloud service providers and enterprise data centers to drive extremely high packet rates and throughput, thus boosting data center infrastructure efficiency.

PORT SPEEDS

2x100/1x100Gb/s

MESSAGE RATE (DPDK)

148 million msgs/sec

PCIE LANES

x16 Gen2/Gen3

ENCRYPTION

N/A

Key Features

Maximum up to 100Gb/s Ethernet per port

Adaptive routing on reliable transport

NVMe over Fabric (NVMf) target offloads

Enhanced vSwitch / vRouter offloads

Hardware offloads for NVGRE and VXLAN encapsulated traffic

End-to-end QoS and congestion control

Benefits

Industry-leading throughput, low latency/CPU utilization and high message rate

Innovative rack design for storage and ML based on Host Chaining technology

Smart interconnect for x86, Power, ARM, and GPU-based compute and storage

Advanced storage capabilities including NVMe over Fabric offloads

Cutting-edge performance in virtualized networks including NFV

Enabler for efficient service chaining capabilities

ConnectX-5 Product Brief

ConnectX-5 IC Product Brief

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