Mellanox, MCX621102AN-ADAT, ConnectX-6 Dx EN Adapter Card, 25GbE Dual-Port SFP28, PCIe 4.0 x8, No Crypto, Tall Bracket
Features:
- Up to 25 Gb/s bandwidth
- Message rate of up to 215 Mbps
- Sub 0.8 uses latency
- Flexible programmable pipeline for network flows
- Multi-Host with advanced QoS
- ASAP2 - Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing for virtual switches/routers
- Overlay tunneling technologies
- IPsec and TLS in-line crypto acceleration
- Block crypto acceleration for data-at-rest
- Hardware Root-of-Trust and secure firmware update
- Connection Tracking offload
- Advanced RoCE capabilities
- Best in class PTP for TSN applications
- GPUDirect for GPU-to-GPU communication
- Host chaining technology for economical rack design
- Platform agnostic: x86, Power, Arm
- ODCC compatible
Solutions:
- Cloud-native, Web 2.0, hyperscale
- Enterprise data-centers
- Big data analytics
- Scale-out compute and storage infrastructure
- Telco and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
- Cloud storage
- Machine Learning (ML) & Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Media and Entertainment
SmartNIC Portfolio:
- 1/10/25 Gb/s Ethernet, PAM4/NRZ
- Various form factors:
- PCIe low-profile
- OCP 3.0 Small Form Factor (SFF)
- OCP 2.0
- Connectivity options:
- PCIe Gen 4.0 x8 host interface
- Multi-host and single-host flavors
ConnectX®-6 Dx is a highly secure and advanced smart network interface card (SmartNIC) to accelerate mission-critical data center applications, such as security, virtualization, SDN/NFV, big data, machine learning, and storage. It provides up to two ports of 100Gb/s Ethernet connectivity and the highest ROI of any SmartNIC. ConnectX-6 Dx is powered by leading 25/10 Gb/s (NRZ) SerDes technology and novel capabilities that accelerate cloud and data center payloads.
Advanced Virtualization
ConnectX-6 Dx enables building highly efficient virtualized cloud data centers:
- Virtualization ASAP2 delivers virtual switch (vSwitch) and virtual router (vRouter) hardware offloads at orders-of-magnitude higher performance than software-based solutions. ConnectX-6 Dx ASAP2 offers both SR-IOV and VirtIO in-hardware offload capabilities and supports up to 8 million rules.
- Advanced quality of service (QoS)-ConnectX-6 Dx includes traffic shaping and classification-based data policing
Industry-Leading Roce
With industry-leading capabilities, ConnectX-6 Dx delivers more scalable, resilient, and easy-to-deploy remote direct-memory access over converged Ethernet (RoCE) solutions.
- Zero Touch RoCE (ZTR): Simplifying RoCE deployments, ConnectX-6 Dx with ZTR allows RoCE payloads to run seamlessly on existing networks without special configuration, either to priority flow control (PFC) or explicit congestion notification (ECN). ConnectX-6 Dx ensures the resilience, efficiency, and scalability of deployments.
- programmable congestion control: ConnectX-6 Dx includes an API for building user-defined congestion control algorithms for various environments running RoCE and background TCP/IP traffic concurrently.
Best-in-Class PTP for Time-Sensitive Applications
ConnectX-6 Dx incorporates an integrated PTP hardware clock (PHC) that allows the device to achieve sub-20 nanosecond (nsec) accuracy while offering timing-related functions, including time-triggered scheduling or time-based, software-defined networking (SDN) accelerations (time-based ASAP). 5T for 5G technology also enables software applications to transmit front-haul radio area network (RAN)-compatible data in high bandwidth. The PTP solution supports slave clock, master clock, and boundary clock operations. ConnectX-6 Dx also supports SyncE, allowing selected ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNICs to provide PPS-Out or PPS-In signals from designated SMA connectors.
Efficient Storage Solutions
With its NVMe-oF target and initiator offloads, ConnectX-6 Dx brings further optimization, enhancing CPU utilization and scalability. Additionally, ConnectX-6 Dx supports hardware offload for ingress and egress of T10-DIF/PI/CRC32/CRC64 signatures and AES-XTS encryption and decryption offloads, enabling user-based key management and a one-time Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) certification approach.
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