Mellanox, MT28908A0-CCCF-VE, ConnectX-6 200GbE Dual-Port Ethernet Adapter IC, Crypto Enabled
Features:
- Up to 200GbE connectivity per port
- Maximum bandwidth of 200Gb/s
- Up to 215 million messages/sec
- Sub 0.8usec latency
- Mellanox Multi-Host with advanced quality of service (QoS) capabilities
- Block-level AES-XTS hardware encryption
- FIPS capable
- 8 network lanes support both 50G SerDes (PAM4) and 25G SerDes (NRZ) based ports
- Best-in-class packet pacing with sub-nanosecond accuracy
- PCIe Gen 4.0 and Gen 3.0 support
- RoHS compliant
Benefits:
- Most intelligent, highest performance fabric for computing and storage infrastructures
- Cutting-edge performance in virtualized HPC networks including Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
- Advanced storage capabilities including block-level encryption and checksum offloads
- Host Chaining technology for economical rack design
- Smart interconnect for x86, Power, Arm, GPU and FPGA-based platforms
- Flexible programmable pipeline for network flows
- Enabler for efficient service chaining
- Efficient I/O consolidation, lowering data center costs and complexity
World's first 200GbE Ethernet network adapter offering unprecedented, industry-leading performance, smart offloads, and In-Network Computing, leading to the highest return on investment for Big Data, Machine Learning, Cloud, Web 2.0, and Storage applications. ConnectX-6 is a groundbreaking addition to the Mellanox ConnectX series of industry-leading adapters, providing two ports of 200GbE for Ethernet connectivity, sub 0.8usec latency, and 215 million messages per second. With Mellanox Multi-Host® support for up to 8 independent hosts, an integrated PCIe switch, NVMe over Fabric, and security offloads, ConnectX-6 offers the highest performance and most flexible solution for today's demanding data center applications. ConnectX-6 EN supports 200, 100, 50, 40, 25, and 10 GbE Ethernet speeds.
- Encapsulation and decapsulation of overlay network headers
- Stateless offloads of inner packets
- Packet headers re-write (enabling NAT functionality), hairpin, and more.
In addition, ConnectX-6 offers intelligent flexible pipeline capabilities, including the programmable flexible parser and flexible match-action tables, which will enable hardware offloads of future protocols.
Standard and Multi-Host Management
Mellanox's host management technology for standard and multi-host platforms optimizes board management and power, performance, and firmware update management via NC-SI, MCTP over SMBus and MCTP over PCIe , as well as PLDM for Monitor and Control DSP0248 and PLDM for Firmware Update DSP0267.
Security:
ConnectX-6 block-level encryption offers a critical innovation to network security. As data in transit is stored or retrieved, it undergoes encryption and decryption. The ConnectX-6 hardware offloads the IEEE AES-XTS encryption/decryption from the CPU, saving latency and CPU utilization. It also guarantees protection for users sharing the same resources through the use of dedicated encryption keys. By performing block-storage encryption in the adapter, ConnectX-6 excludes the need for self-encrypted disks. This allows customers the freedom to choose their preferred storage device, including byte-addressable and NVDI mm devices that traditionally do not provide encryption. Moreover, ConnectX-6 can support Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance.
Machine Learning and Big Data Environments
Data analytics has become an essential function within many enterprise data centers, clouds, and Hyperscale platforms. Machine learning relies on high throughput and low latency to train deep neural networks and to improve recognition and classification accuracy. ConnectX-6 is the perfect solution to provide machine learning applications with the levels of performance and scalability that they require. ConnectX-6 utilizes the RDMA technology to deliver low-latency and high performance. ConnectX-6 enhances RDMA network capabilities even further by delivering RoCE Congestion Control, achieving the end-to-end best performance.
