Mellanox MCX516A-CCAT ConnectX-5 EN Network Interface Card, 100GbE Dual-Port QSFP28, PCIe3.0 x 16

MCX516A-CCAT Card Up to 100Gb/s Ethernet Adapter Cards

Intelligent RDMA-enabled, single and dual-port network adapter with advanced application offload capabilities for Web 2.0, Cloud,Storage, and Telco platforms

 MCX516A-CCAT Ethernet adapter cards provide high performance and flexible solutions with up to two ports of 100GbE connectivity, 750ns latency, up to 200 million messages per second (Mpps), and a recordsetting 197Mpps when running an open source Data Path Development Kit (DPDK) PCIe (Gen 4.0). For storage workloads, MCX516A-CCAT delivers a range of innovative accelerations, such as Signature Handover(T10-DIF) in hardware, an embedded PCIe Switch, and NVMe over Fabric target offloads. MCX516A-CCAT adapter cards also bring advanced Open vSwitch offloads to telecommunications and cloud data centers to drive extremely high packet rates and throughput with reduced CPU resource consumption, thus boosting data center infrastructure efficiency.MCX516A-CCAT adapter cards are available for PCIe Gen 3.0 and Gen 4.0 servers and provide support for 1,10, 25, 40, 50 and 100 GbE speeds in stand-up PCIe cards, OCP 2.0, and OCP 3.0 form factors. MCX516A-CCAT cards also offer advanced Mellanox Multi-Host® and Mellanox Socket Direct® technologies.

MCX516A-CCAT FEATURES

– Tag matching and rendezvous offloads
– Adaptive routing on reliable transport
– Burst buffer offloads for background
checkpointing
– NVMe over Fabric offloads
– Backend switch elimination by host
chaining
– Embedded PCIe switch
– Enhanced vSwitch/vRouter offloads
– Flexible pipeline
– RoCE for overlay networks
– PCIe Gen 4.0 support
– RoHS compliant
– ODCC compatible
– Various form factors available

MCX516A-CCAT BENEFITS

– Up to 100Gb/s connectivity per port
– Industry-leading throughput, low
latency, low CPU utilization and high
message rate
– Innovative rack design for storage
and Machine Learning based on Host
Chaining technology
– Smart interconnect for x86, Power,
Arm, and GPU-based compute &
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