Mellanox ConnectX-5 Single-Dual-Port Adapter Supporting 100Gb-s Ethernet

Intelligent ConnectX-5 EN adapter cards introduce new acceleration engines for maximizing High Performance, Web 2.0, Cloud, Data Analytics and Storage platforms.

ConnectX-5 supports two ports of 100Gb/s Ethernet connectivity, sub-700 nanosecond latency, and very high message rate, plus PCIe switch and NVMe over Fabric offloads, providing the highest performance and most flexible solution for the most demanding applications and markets.

ConnectX-5 Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing (ASAP2™) technology enhances offloading of virtual switches and virtual routers, for example, Open V-Switch (OVS), which results in significantly higher data transfer performance without overloading the CPU. Together with native RoCE and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) support, ConnectX-5 dramatically improves Cloud and NFV platform efficiency.

• 100Gb/s Ethernet per port and all lower speeds
• Up to 200M messages/second
• Adaptive Routing on Reliable Transport
• NVMe over Fabric (NVMf) Target Offloads
• Back-End Switch Elimination by Host Chaining
• Embedded PCIe Switch
• Enhanced vSwitch / vRouter Offloads
• Flexible Pipeline
• RoCE for Overlay Networks
• PCIe Gen 4 Support