PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
The NVIDIA® ConnectX®-6 Dx is a highly secure and advanced smart network interface card (SmartNIC) designed to accelerate mission-critical data center applications, including security, virtualization, SDN/NFV, big data, machine learning, and storage. It offers up to two ports of 100Gb/s or a single-port of 200Gb/s Ethernet connectivity, making it one of the most cost-effective SmartNIC solutions available.
Powered by leading-edge 50Gb/s (PAM4) and 25/10 Gb/s (NRZ) SerDes technology, the ConnectX-6 Dx introduces novel capabilities that significantly enhance cloud and data center workloads.
ZERO-TRUST SECURITY
In today’s data-centric era, ConnectX-6 Dx adapters are equipped with advanced, built-in features that prioritize security at the endpoints, providing unmatched performance and scalability:
- Crypto: Offloads IPsec and TLS data-in-motion inline encryption and decryption, along with AES-XTS block-level data-at-rest encryption and decryption.
- Probes and DoS Protection: ConnectX-6 Dx enables a hardware-based L4 firewall by offloading stateful connection tracking through NVIDIA ASAP2 – Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing® offload technology, ensuring effective protection 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 offers cloning protection through 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 virtual switch (vSwitch) and virtual router (vRouter) at significantly higher performance levels compared to 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): Incorporates traffic shaping and classification-based data policing for optimized data management.
