Overview
Rev 1.9
Mellanox Technologies
10
1
Overview
This document is a
User Manual
for Mellanox Technologies Ethernet Mezzanine cards based on
the ConnectX®-3 EN integrated circuit device. The cards described in this manual have the fol-
lowing main features:
•
IEEE Std. 802.3 compliant
•
PCI Express 3.0 (1.1 and 2.0 compatible) through an x4 Mezzanine connector
•
PCI Express 2.0 (1.1 compatible) through an x8 Mezzanine connector
•
10 Gb/s Ethernet
•
Single and Dual SFP+ ports card
•
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
•
End-to-end QoS and congestion control
•
Hardware-based I/O virtualization
•
TCP/UDP/IP stateless off-load
•
IPMI support
•
Wake-on-LAN (WoL)
•
Reset-on-LAN (RoL)
•
RoHS-R6 compliant
•
For MCX341A-XCBN only
: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) support
1.1
Supported Network Protocol Standards
10 Gigabit Ethernet is an Ethernet network protocol standard for LANs specifying data transfer
rate of 10Gb/s. Mellanox adapters comply with the following IEEE 802.3* standards:
•
IEEE Std 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
•
IEEE Std 802.3ad Link Aggregation and Failover
1.2
Adapter Cards Covered in this Manual
lists the single and dual port 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter cards described in this manual.
Table 3 - Single and Dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Card
Ordering Part
Number (OPN)
PCI Express
SERDES Speed
Data Transmis-sion
Rate/
# of ports
RoHS
IC
Part Number
MCX341A-
XCAN
PCIe 3.0 x4 8GT/s
PCIe 2.0 x8 5GT/s
10GigE single-port
SFP+
R-6
MT27518A1-FCCR-
XE
MCX341A-
XCBN
PCIe 3.0 x4 8GT/s
PCIe 2.0 x8 5GT/s
10GigE single-port
SFP+
R-6
MCX342A-
XCAN
PCIe 3.0 x4 8GT/s
PCIe 2.0 x8 5GT/s
10GigE dual-port SFP+
R-6
