NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx MCX623106AE-CDAT

The NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx MCX623106AE-CDAT is a dual-port 100GbE network adapter built on the ConnectX-6 Dx controller with a PCIe 4.0 x16 host interface. It pairs two QSFP56 100GbE ports with an onboard cryptography engine for inline IPsec/TLS offload, without hardware Secure Boot, offering a balance of throughput, port redundancy, and encrypted networking at a lower cost point than Secure Boot SKUs. RoCE v2 RDMA delivers low-latency, high-throughput data movement for compute and storage fabrics, while ASAP² hardware offload accelerates Open vSwitch processing and SR-IOV virtualization to reduce host CPU load. The dual-port design supports both link aggregation for higher effective bandwidth and active-standby failover for network resiliency. This SKU is well suited to general-purpose data center servers, storage nodes, and virtualized hosts that need dependable dual 100GbE connectivity with hardware-accelerated encryption but do not require firmware attestation.