NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx EN 25GbE Network Interface Card

ConnectX-6 Lx

25GbE Performance at the Speed of Lite

NVIDIA® Mellanox® ConnectX®-6 Lx SmartNICs deliver scalability, high performance, advanced security capabilities and accelerated networking combined with the lowest total cost of ownership for 25GbE deployments in Cloud, telco, and enterprise data centers.

Dual-Port 25GbE/Single-Port 50GbE SmartNIC

Providing up to two ports of 25GbE or a single-port of 50GbE connectivity, and PCIe Gen 3.0/4.0 x8 host connectivity, ConnectX-6 Lx is a member of NVIDIA’s world-class, award-winning, ConnectX family of network adapters. Continuing consistent innovation in networking, ConnectX-6 Lx provides agility and efficiency at every scale. ConnectX-6 Lx delivers cutting edge 25GbE performance and security for uncompromising data centers.

SDN Acceleration

NVIDIA Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing® technology offloads the SDN data plane to the SmartNIC, accelerating performance and offloading the CPU in virtualized or containerized cloud data centers. Customers can accelerate their data centers with an SR-IOV or VirtIO interface while continuing to enjoy their SDN of choice.

Industry-leading RoCE

Following the ConnectX tradition of industry-leading RoCE capabilities, ConnectX-6 Lx enables more scalable, resilient, and easy-to-deploy RoCE solutions utilizing NVIDIA Zero Touch RoCE (ZTR). ConnectX-6 Lx allows RoCE payloads to run seamlessly on existing networks without requiring network configuration (no PFC, no ECN) for simplified RoCE deployments.

Secure Infrastructure

In an era where privacy of information is key and zero trust is the rule, ConnectX-6 Lx provides supply chain protection with hardware Root-of-Trust (RoT) for Secure Boot as well as secure firmware update using RSA cryptography and cloning-protection, via a device-unique key, to guarantee firmware authenticity and unprecedented performance and scalability.