The NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Lx Ethernet SmartNIC is a high-performance, secure, and efficient network interface card designed for modern data centers, cloud environments, and enterprise deployments. Supporting speeds of 10/25 GbE, it delivers consistent low-latency and high-throughput performance, making it ideal for a wide range of workloads, including virtualization, storage, and AI/ML data pipelines. With advanced hardware offloads such as RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) and SR-IOV, it reduces CPU overhead, freeing compute resources for application processing and improving overall system efficiency.
Engineered with robust security features, the ConnectX-6 Lx offers inline data encryption, secure boot, and hardware-based root of trust to protect against evolving cyber threats. It also integrates seamlessly with NVIDIA networking software stacks, enabling optimized performance in Kubernetes, OpenStack, and other cloud-native infrastructures. This SmartNIC provides the scalability, reliability, and security needed to meet the demands of next-generation networking in HPC clusters, hyperscale cloud, and enterprise IT environments.
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