Mellanox Technologies MCX516A-CDAT - Connectx-5 Ex EN NIC 100GBE QSFP PCIE4.0

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 (ASAP2Ö) 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.