DUAL 100G, LINE
RATE: Mellanox ConnectX-5 (MCX516A-CCAT) drives two QSFP28 ports with 100G/50G/40G/25G/10G/1G auto-negotiation 200Gb/s aggregate from a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot.; 197
MPPS WITH DPDK: Hardware packet processing sustains up to 197 million packets per second, the reason ConnectX-5 remains the budget king for software-defined networking and firewalls.;
RDMA FOR REAL WORKLOADS: Native RoCE accelerates NVMe-oF, Ceph and distributed storage; MPI and AI data-loading jobs finish faster with CPU-free memory transfers.;
MULTI-TENANT VIRTUALIZATION: SR-IOV with up to 127 VFs per port (254 per card), plus VXLAN/GENEVE/NVGRE overlay offload built for cloud nodes and dense VM hosts.;
COMPLETE DATA CENTER KIT: PXE/UEFI boot, NC-SI, DCB, jumbo frames; Windows/Linux/VMware drivers; low-profile and full-height brackets included.