Gigabyte Shows Quad 10GbE SFP28 LAN ports card

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/19/2018 10:09 AM | source: | 7 comment(s)

Gigabyte has released a four port 10 Gigabit LAN card "CLN4M34" based on a Mellanox ConnectX-4 chip. The card makes use of an x16 PCI Express bus interface.

While there is very little to report on the card, the interesting thing remains to be the use of a fairly unknown IC, the Mellanox ConnectX-4". The network card itself is actively cooled with a small fan, the network interface is fitted with SFP 28 x 4. Optics like SFP+ is commonly used for 10G transmission.

4 x 10GbE SFP28 LAN ports
Mellanox ConnectX-4
PCIe x16 (Gen3 x16 bus)
MD2 low profile type
130 x 68.9 mm

The card size is 130 × 68.9 mm. Two kinds of brackets are included so it can be used both full height and low profile inside 1U servers.

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tsunami231
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#5521498 Posted on: 02/20/2018 08:23 PM

I will be more intrested when these chipest get intergrated in to Motherboards, but it about time we start seeing faster then 1gbit nic's

EniGmA1987
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#5521758 Posted on: 02/21/2018 07:43 PM

It's quite obvious the article is referring to the their "ConnectX-4" adapter used and not "Mellanox" in general.
A little courtesy goes a long way but yeah, keep posting the good stuff.
The guy obviously can't read to save his life. Because HH explicitly refers to the chip itself, and not the company; not once but twice!

a fairly unknown IC

the Mellanox ConnectX-4

Hahaha. You two must be as dense as the article's author. ConnectX line is the primary line of product for Mellanox, in both Ethernet and Infiniband. You two are really trying to imply people are well familiar with Mellanox and have no clue what their primary product line is at the same time? o_O

I will be more intrested when these chipest get intergrated in to Motherboards, but it about time we start seeing faster then 1gbit nic's
Integrating faster NICs in general, sure. Integrating a ConnectX chip specifically? Not going to happen. That would increase the cost of the motherboard by $200-300 for that chip alone with what Mellanox would sell it for.

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