The Mellanox MCX623106AN-CDAT is a high-performance ConnectX-6 Dx Ethernet Smart Network Interface Card (SmartNIC) built for modern enterprise data centers, cloud computing, and high-performance workloads. It delivers advanced networking acceleration, high throughput, and strong security features, making it ideal for virtualization, AI/ML, storage, and large-scale distributed systems.
This adapter supports dual-port 100GbE connectivity (QSFP56 interface) and operates on a PCIe 4.0 x16 host interface, providing extremely high bandwidth between server and network infrastructure.
It includes advanced hardware offloads such as RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), NVMe over Fabrics, SR-IOV virtualization, and TCP/UDP/IP acceleration, significantly reducing CPU overhead and improving overall system efficiency.
The card is also designed with enterprise-grade security features, including inline IPsec/TLS/MACsec encryption, hardware root-of-trust, and secure boot support, ensuring safe data transfer in sensitive environments.
With support for up to 100GbE per port (200GbE aggregate depending on configuration), it is widely used in cloud infrastructure, HPC clusters, AI workloads, and modern virtualized data centers.
🔑 Key Features:
- Dual-port 100GbE (QSFP56) SmartNIC
- PCIe 4.0 x16 high-speed interface
- ConnectX-6 Dx architecture
- RDMA (RoCE) & NVMe-oF support
- SR-IOV virtualization (multi-tenant support)
- Hardware encryption (IPsec / TLS / MACsec)
- Ultra-low latency & high packet rate
- Ideal for AI, cloud, virtualization & HPC workloads
