FS Now Supply SmartNICs to Drive Data Center Transformation

Jan 15th, FS News - FS now is supplying high-performance ConnectX® SmartNICs to accelerate mission-critical data-center applications and help enable the highest ROI for hyperscale, clouds, storage, machine learning, AI, big data and telco platforms.

The exponential increase of network traffic has fueled the need for high-speed and intelligent networking to deliver data in an efficient manner. Hence, there is a growing need for advanced, secure, high performance NICs. FS, which always puts customers’ needs first, aims to supply NICs featuring lower latency and higher speed to provide a superior performance experience. The ConnectX® SmartNICs family includes the renowned ConnectX-6, ConnectX-5 and ConnectX-4 NICs supporting 100Gb/s, 25Gb/s and 10Gb/s connectivity - the 10G and 25G NICs are well suited for enterprise data centers while the 100G cards are the enablers for bandwidth-hungry cloud, hyperscale data center and telco applications. They provide unparalleled RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) performance with enhanced programmability and robustness, making it the easy-to-use transport technology of choice. The ConnectX® SmartNICs also innovate hardware offload engines, advanced network virtualization, and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) storage accelerations.

The SmartNICs will help us fulfill customers’ demands in virtualization and cloud data centers that require high-performance storage and improved operational efficiency. The smart interconnect solutions represent the industry’s most advanced approach to achieve performance and scalability, which will enable our customers to build highly secure and efficient compute and storage infrastructures to increase productivity and reduce total cost of ownership.