ConnectX-3 Pro Ethernet Adapter

ConnectX-3 Pro Ethernet 40GbE network interface cards with hardware offload engines for Overlay Networks ("Tunneling") provide the highest performing and most flexible interconnect solution for PCI Express Gen3 servers used in public and private clouds, enterprise data centers, and high performance computing.

Public and private cloud clustered databases, parallel processing, transactional services, and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation.

Benefits

• 40Gb/s connectivity for servers and storage
• Open Compute Project Form Factor
• Industry-leading throughput and latency performance
• Cutting edge performance in virtualized overlay networks (VXLAN and NVGRE)
• I/O consolidation
• Virtualization acceleration
• Software compatible with standard TCP/UDP/IP and iSCSI stacks

Key Features

• Single and Dual 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports
• PCI Express 3.0 (up to 8GT/s)
• OCP Specification 2.0
• Low Latency RDMA over Ethernet
• Hardware Offloads for NVGRE and VXLAN encapsulated traffic
• Data Center Bridging support
• TCP/IP stateless offload in hardware
• Traffic steering across multiple cores
• Hardware-based I/O
• End-to-end QoS and congestion control
• Virtualization
• Intelligent interrupt coalescence
• Advanced Quality of Service
• RoHS-R6

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