Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx EN adapter card, 25GbE, Dual-port SFP28

NVIDIA ConnectX-6 DX Ethernet SmartNIC

ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNIC is the industry's most secure and advanced cloud network interface card to accelerate mission-critical data-center applications, such as security, virtualization, SDN/NFV, big data, machine learning, and storage. The SmartNIC delivers the highest return on investment (ROI) of any smart network interface card.

ConnectX-6 Dx is a member of NVIDIA's world-class, award-winning ConnectX series of network adapters powered by leading 50 Gb/s (PAM4) and 25/10 Gb/s (NRZ) SerDes technology and novel capabilities that accelerate cloud and data-center payloads.

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:
• SFP28
• PCIe Gen 4.0 x8 host interface
• Multi-host and single-host flavors
• Crypto and non-crypto versions

Key Features

Solutions

• Up to 25 Gb/s bandwidth
• Message rate of up to 215 Mpps
• Sub 0.8 usec latency
• Flexible programmable pipeline for new 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
• Cloud-native, Web 2.0, hyperscale
• Enterprise data-centers
• Cyber security
• 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