MCX556M-ECAT-S25 - ConnectX®-5 VPI adapter card, EDR IB (100Gb/s) and 100GbE, dual-port QSFP28

Features

• Socket Direct, enabling 100Gb/s for servers without x16 PCIe slots
• Tag matching and rendezvous offloads
• Adaptive routing on reliable transport
• Burst buffer offloads for background checkpointing
• NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) offloads
• Back-end switch elimination by host chaining
• Enhanced vSwitch/vRouter offloads
• Flexible pipeline
• RoCE for overlay networks
• RoHS compliant
• ODCC compatible

Benefits

• Up to 100Gb/s connectivity per port
• Industry-leading throughput, low latency, low CPU utilization and high message rate
• Low latency for dual-socket servers in environments with multiple network flows
• Innovative rack design for storage and Machine Learning based on Host Chaining technology
• Smart interconnect for x86, Power, Arm, and GPU-based compute and storage platforms
• Advanced storage capabilities including NVMe over Fabric offloads
• Intelligent network adapter supporting flexible pipeline programmability
• Cutting-edge performance in virtualized networks including Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
• Enabler for efficient service chaining capabilities
• Efficient I/O consolidation, lowering data center costs and complexity