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.