ConnectX EN - Dual-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters with PCI Express 2.0

Overview

Mellanox ConnectX EN Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NIC) deliver high-bandwidth
and industry leading 10GigE connectivity with stateless offloads for performance-driven server and storage applications in High-Performance Computing, Enterprise Data Centers, and Embedded environments. Large clustered databases, web infrastructure, and IP video servers are just a few example applications that
will achieve significant throughput improvements resulting in faster access and increased number of users per server. ConnectX EN improves network performance by increasing available bandwidth while decreasing the associated transport load on the CPU and providing enhanced performance, especially in virtualized server environments.

Key Features

• Dual and Single 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
  – Dual-port 10GBASE-CX4 NIC
  – Single and Dual-port 10GBASE-SR, LR, and LRM NICs
  – Single and Dual-port 10GBASE-T NICs
• PCI Express 2.0 x8 (1.1 compatible)
• Hardware Offload of Fiber Channel over Ethernet
• Copper and fiber connection options
• Traffic steering across multiple cores
• TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload in hardware
• Intelligent interrupt coalescence
• Hardware-based I/O virtualization
• Advanced Quality of Service
• Full support for Intel I/OAT