The ConnectX-5 Ethernet network interface card features two 100GbE ports, 750ns latency, up to 200 million packets per second (Mpps), and supports the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK). For storage workloads, the ConnectX-5 provides a range of innovative acceleration features, such as signature switching (T10-DIF) in hardware, an embedded PCIe switch, and NVMe over Fabric target offload. The ConnectX-5 adapter card also delivers advanced Open vSwitch offload for telecom and cloud data centers, enabling extremely high packet rates and throughput while reducing CPU resource consumption, thereby improving the efficiency of data center infrastructure.

Product advantages:

• Industry-leading throughput, low latency, low CPU utilization and high packet rate

• Innovative rack design for storage and machine learning based on Host Chaining technology

• Intelligent interconnect for x86, Power and GPU-based compute and storage platforms

• Advanced storage features including NVMe over Fabric offload

• Intelligent network adapter with flexible pipeline programmability

• Cutting-edge performance for virtualized networks including Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)

• Efficient I/O consolidation to reduce data center cost and complexity