Overview
Rev 1.0
Mellanox Technologies
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Overview
This document is a
User Manual
for Mellanox Technologies cards based on the integrated circuit
device. The cards described in this manual have the following main features:
• Virtual Protocol Interconnect IBTA v1.2.1 compliant
• Compliant with QSFP MSA spec Rev. 1.0
• Compatible with copper cables and optical cables with the use of QSFP connectors. Support for
SFP+ cables is available through QSA (Quad to Serial) adapter.
• CPU offload of transport operations
• End-to-end QoS and congestion control
• Hardware-based I/O virtualization
• TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
• RoHS-R6
• PCI Express 2.0 (1.1 compatible) through an x8 edge connector up to 5GT/s
• Two bracket heights: short and tall
