CX516A ConnectX-5 100GbE MCX516A-CCAT Dual Port QSFP28 PCI-E Adapter

Mellanox Network Card CX516A ConnectX-5 100GbE MCX516A-CCAT Dual-Port QSFP28 PCI-E Adapter

Telecommunications service providers are moving towards disaggregation, server virtualization, and orchestration as key tenets to modernize their networks. Likewise, they’re also moving towards Network Function Virtualization (NFV), which enables the rapid deployment of new network services. With this move, proprietary dedicated hardware and software, which tend to be static and difficult to scale, are being replaced with virtual machines running on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers. For telecom service providers, choosing the right networking hardware is critical to achieving a cloud-native NFV solution that is agile, reliable, fast and efficient. Telco service providers typically leverage virtualization and cloud technologies to better achieve agile service delivery and efficient scalability; these technologies require an advanced network infrastructure to support higher rates of packet processing. However, the resultant east-west traffic causes numerous interrupts as I/O traverses from kernel to user space, eats up CPU cycles and decreases packet performance. Particularly sensitive to delays are voice and video applications which often require less than 100ms of latency.

BENEFITS

– Up to 100Gb/s connectivity per port

– Industry-leading throughput, low latency, low CPU utilization and high message rate

– Innovative rack design for storage and Machine Learning based on Host Chaining technology

– Smart interconnect for x86, Power, Arm, and GPU-based compute & storage platforms

– Advanced storage capabilities including NVMe over Fabric offloads

– Intelligent network adapter supporting flexible pipeline programmability

– Cutting-edge performance in virtualized networks including Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

– Enabler for efficient service chaining capabilities

– Efficient I/O consolidation, lowering data center costs and complexity