Mellanox Technologies MCX555A-ECAT Network Card Internal Fiber 100000 Mbit/s MCX555A-ECAT

The Mellanox Technologies MCX555A-ECAT is a high-performance internal network card that supports fiber connectivity with speeds up to 100,000 Mbit/s or 100Gb/s. It functions as a Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) adapter card, capable of both InfiniBand and Ethernet connections. The ConnectX-4 network adapter card is designed to support FDR InfiniBand and 40/56GbE, offering top-tier performance and flexibility for various high-demand applications such as high-performance computing, Web 2.0, cloud services, data analytics, databases, and storage platforms. In response to the rapid increase in data sharing and storage demands, this network card facilitates the high-speed and high-performance requirements of modern data centers.

Key product features include tag matching and rendezvous offloads, adaptive routing on reliable transport, burst buffer offloads for background checkpointing, and NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) offloads. The card also eliminates the need for back-end switches by enabling host chaining, is equipped with an embedded PCIe switch, and offers enhanced vSwitch/vRouter offloads. Additionally, it supports a flexible pipeline, RoCE for overlay networks, PCIe Gen 4.0, and is compliant with RoHS and ODCC standards.

The benefits of using this network card include up to 100Gb/s connectivity per port and industry-leading throughput with low latency, minimal CPU use, and high message rates. It boasts an innovative rack design for storage and machine learning via Host Chaining technology and provides smart interconnectivity for x86, Power, Arm, and GPU-based systems. The card features advanced storage capabilities such as NVMe over Fabric offloads and supports flexible pipeline programmability. It delivers cutting-edge performance in virtualized networks, including support for Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and acts as an enabler for efficient service chaining capabilities. This results in efficient I/O consolidation that reduces data center costs and complexity.