ConnectX-6 25 Ethernet SmartNIC

Smart, Accelerated Networking for Modern

Enterprise Data Centers.Smart, Accelerated Networking for Modern Enterprise Data Centers.

The PCIe x8 ConnectX-6 Lx Ethernet smart network interface cards (SmartNIC) deliver scalability, high performance, advanced  security capabilities, and accelerated networking with the best total cost of ownership for 25GbE deployments in cloud and enterprise data centers. 

The SmartNICs support up to two ports of 25GbE, or a single-port of 50GbE connectivity, along with PCI Express Gen3 and Gen4 x8 host connectivity to deliver cutting-edge performance and security for uncompromising data centers.

Key Features

– Line speed message rate of 75Mpps

– Advanced RoCE

– SDN acceleration

– IPsec inline crypto acceleration

– Overlay tunneling accelerations

– Stateful rule checking for connection tracking

– Hardware root-of-trust and secure firmware update

Features

Host Interface

– PCIe Gen 3.0 compatible, x8 lanes

Network Interface

– 2 ports of 10/25GbE or 1 port of 50GbE

– Up to 50Gb/s total bandwidth

Enhanced Networking

– Zero-Touch RoCE

– ASAP² Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing for SDN and VNF acceleration

– Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)

– VirtIO acceleration

– Overlay network acceleration: VXLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE

– Programmable flexible parser

– Connection tracking (L4 firewall)

– Flow mirroring, sampling and statistics

– Header rewrite

– Hierarchical QoS

– Stateless TCP offloads

Cybersecurity

– IPsec over RoCE

– Platform security

– Hardware root-of-trust

– Secure firmware update Management and Control

– NC-SI, MCTP over SMBus and MCTP over PCIe - Baseboard Management Controller interface, NCSI over RBT in OCP cards

Remote Boot

– Remote boot over Ethernet

– Remote boot over iSCSI

– Unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) support for x86 and Arm servers

– Pre-execution environment (PXE) boot