NVIDIA ConnectX-6 DX Ethernet SmartNIC

ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNIC MCX623405AN-CDAN is the industry’s most secure and advanced cloud network interface card to accelerate mission-critical data-center applications, such as security, virtualization, SDN/NFV, big data, Machine Learning, and storage. The SmartNIC delivers the highest return on investment (ROI) of any smart network interface card.

ConnectX-6 Dx is a member of NVIDIA’s world-class, award-winning ConnectX series of network adapters powered by leading 50 Gb/s (PAM4) and 25/10 Gb/s (NRZ) SerDes technology and novel capabilities that accelerate cloud and data-center payloads.

SmartNIC Portfolio

• 1/10/25/40/50/100 Gb/s Ethernet, PAM4/NRZ
• Various form factors:
• PCIe low-profile
• OCP 3.0 Small Form Factor (SFF)
• OCP 2.0
• Connectivity options:
• SFP28, SFP56, QSFP28, QSFP56
• PCIe Gen 3.0/4.0 x16 host interface
• Multi-host and single-host flavors
• Crypto and non-crypto versions

Key Features

Up to 100 Gb/s bandwidth

Message rate of up to 215 Mpps

Sub 0.8 usec latency

Flexible programmable pipeline for new network flows

Multi-Host with advanced QoS

ASAP2 – Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing for virtual switches/routers

Overlay tunneling technologies

IPsec and TLS in-line crypto acceleration

Block crypto acceleration for data-at-rest

Hardware Root-of-Trust and secure firmware update

Connection Tracking offload

Advanced RoCE capabilities

Best in class PTP for TSN applications

GPUDirect for GPU-to-GPU communication

Host chaining technology for economical rack design

Platform agnostic: x86, Power, Arm

ODCC compatible

Solutions

Cloud-native, Web 2.0, hyperscale

Enterprise data-centers

Cyber security

Big data analytics

Scale-out compute and storage infrastructure

Telco and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

Cloud storage

Machine Learning (ML) & Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Media and Entertainment