ConnectX-6 Dx EN adapter card, 100GbE, OCP3.0, With Host management, Dual-port QSFP56, PCIe 4.0 x16, Crypto and Secure Boot, Thumbscrew (Pull Tab) Bracket
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
The ConnectX-6 Dx EN adapter card from NVIDIA® is an advanced and highly secure smart network interface card (SmartNIC) specially designed to accelerate mission-critical applications within data centers. It excels in enhancing the performance of various operations, including security, virtualization, SDN/NFV, big data, machine learning, and storage. This SmartNIC provides the highest Return on Investment (ROI) among its peers.
Powered by leading-edge 50Gb/s (PAM4) and 25/10 Gb/s (NRZ) SerDes technology, the ConnectX-6 Dx comes equipped with novel capabilities that significantly accelerate cloud and data center payloads.
ZERO-TRUST SECURITY
In an era where data privacy is of utmost importance, ConnectX-6 Dx adapters offer advanced, built-in capabilities that prioritize security at the endpoints, providing unprecedented performance and scalability:
- Crypto: Enables IPsec and TLS data-in-motion inline encryption and decryption offload, along with AES-XTS block-level data-at-rest encryption and decryption offloads.
- Probes and DoS Protection: By offloading stateful connection tracking through NVIDIA ASAP2 – Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing® offload technology, ConnectX-6 Dx enables a hardware-based L4 firewall, effectively safeguarding against denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
- NIC Security: Provides hardware root-of-trust (RoT) secure boot and secure firmware update using RSA cryptography. Additionally, it includes cloning protection via a device-unique secret key.
ADVANCED VIRTUALIZATION
ConnectX-6 Dx empowers the creation of highly efficient virtualized cloud data centers through the following features:
- Virtualization: ASAP2 delivers hardware offloads for a virtual switch (vSwitch) and virtual router (vRouter), offering performance levels orders-of-magnitude higher than software-based solutions. ConnectX-6 Dx ASAP2 supports both SR-IOV and VirtIO in-hardware offload capabilities, accommodating up to 8 million rules.
- Advanced Quality of Service (QoS): Includes traffic shaping and classification-based data policing, optimizing data management.
