Network Interface Cards

The ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 EN 10/25GbE SFP28 Ethernet Adapter is a high performance 25Gb Ethernet network adapter that offers multiple network offloads including RoCE v2, NVMe over Ethernet and Open vSwitch.

The ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx 10/25GbE SFP28 Ethernet Adapters from NVIDIA Networking are high performance 25Gb Ethernet network adapters that offer multiple network offloads including RoCE v2, NVMe over Ethernet and Open vSwitch.

The ThinkSystem Solarflare X2522-Plus 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter is a highperformance 25 GbE adapter that is designed for high-performance electronic trading environments and cloud and enterprise data centers. It is suitable for applications such as artificial intelligence, big data, analytics, machine learning, storage, and telco applications.

The following figure shows the ThinkSystem Solarflare X2522-Plus 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter.

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Extremely low latency and high throughput enables the Solarflare X2522-Plus adapter to provide real-time packet and flow information to thousands of virtual NICs. This combination of ultra-high bandwidth, ultra-low latency, ultra-scale connectivity, and packet telemetry allows the adapter to scale with each server or virtual machine.

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

Providing up to two ports of 25 GbE connectivity, along with PCIe Gen 3.0/4.0 x8 host connectivity, ConnectX-6 Lx is a member of Mellanox's world-class, award-winning, ConnectX family of network adapters. Continuing Mellanox's consistent innovation in networking, ConnectX-6 Lx provides agility and efficiency at every scale.

ConnectX-6 Lx SmartNICs deliver cutting edge 25 GbE performance and security for uncompromising data centers.

WIDE SELECTION OF SMARTNICS

ConnectX-6 Lx SmartNICs are available in several form factors including low-profile PCIe and OCP 3.0 cards with SFP28 connectors for 10/25 GbE applications. Low-profile PCIe cards are available with tall and short brackets, while OCP3.0 cards are available with either a pull tab or an internal lock bracket.

BEST-IN-CLASS SDN ACCELERATION

Mellanox's ASAP - Accelerated Switch 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.

The ConnectX-6 Lx ASAP rich feature set accelerates public and on-premises enterprise clouds, and boosts communication service providers (CSP) transition to NFV. ASAP supports these communication service providers by enabling packet encapsulations, such as MPLS and GTP, along side cloud encapsulations, such as VXLAN, Geneve, and others.

The Intel Ethernet Connection X722 is a network controller embedded into the Intel C624 "Lewisburg" PCH chipset of Lenovo ThinkSystem servers. The controller connects to available 10 GbE and 1 Gigabit Ethernet LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) adapter cards and onboard connectors to provide a comprehensive 1 GbE / 10 GbE networking solution for ThinkSystem customers.

ThinkSystem servers support either 10 Gb Ethernet copper or optical connections, or Gigabit Ethernet connections depending on the server model.

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The Intel Ethernet Connection X722 shares the same core and drivers as the Intel X710 adapters making driver management easier of existing customers.

ThinkSystem LOM adapters are cost-effective adapters that take advantage of the X722 controller embedded in Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family chipset and offer the flexibility advantages of a PCIe adapter while supporting integrated networking features, such as Wake-on-LAN and direct connectivity to the XClarity Controller management processor for NC-SI-compliant systems management.