The ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx 10/25GbE SFP28 Ethernet Adapters from NVIDIA Networking are high performance 25Gb Ethernet network adapters that offer multiple network offloads including RoCE v2, NVMe over Ethernet and Open vSwitch.
Performance and security
ConnectX-6 Lx adapters deliver scalability, high-performance, advanced security capabilities and accelerated networking with the best total cost of ownership for 25GbE deployments in cloud, telco, and enterprise data centers. The adapters provide two ports of 25GbE, PCIe Gen4 and Gen3 x8 host connectivity, and are available either as a low-profile PCIe or OCP 3.0 form factor.
Best-in-Class SDN acceleration
Mellanox's ASAP2 - Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing technology offloads the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) data plane to the adapter, accelerating performance and offloading the CPU in virtualized or containerized cloud data centers. Customers can accelerate their data centers with an SR-IOV or VirtIO interface while continuing to enjoy their SDN protocol of choice. ConnectX-6 Lx ASAP2 rich feature set accelerates public and on-premises enterprise clouds, and boosts communication service providers (CSP) transition to NFV. ASAP2 supports these communication service providers by enabling packet encapsulations, such as MPLS and GTP, alongside cloud encapsulations, such as VXLAN, GENEVE and others.
Industry-leading RoCE
Following the Mellanox ConnectX tradition of industry-leading RoCE capabilities, ConnectX-6 Lx enables more scalable, resilient, and easy-to-deploy RoCE solutions - Zero Touch RoCE. ConnectX-6 Lx allows RoCE payloads to run seamlessly on existing networks without requiring network configuration (no PFC, no ECN) for simplified RoCE deployments. ConnectX-6 Lx ensures RoCE resiliency and efficiency at scale.
Secure your infrastructure
The adapters support ASAP2 connection-tracking hardware offload to improve L4 firewall performance. ConnectX-6 Lx also delivers supply chain protection with hardware Root-of-Trust (RoT) for Secure Boot as well as Secure Firmware Update using RSA cryptography and cloning-protection, via a device-unique key, to guarantee firmware authenticity.
