Innova IPsec EN Adapter, Single-port QSFP, 40GbE, PCIe3.0 x8

The Mellanox Innova IPsec EN Adapter Card provides security acceleration for IPsec-enabled networks while taking advantage of the ConnectX-4 Lx EN Network Controllers best-in-class performance, unmatched scalability, and efficiency.

The constantly growing demand for security and privacy in modern data centers, private and public clouds, Web 2.0 infrastructure, and telecommunication systems, requires the use of security protocols. IPsec is a protocol suite for secure Internet Protocol (IP) communications by authenticating and encrypting each IP packet of a communication session. However, the high computing power required by the IPsec algorithms consumes expensive CPU cycles and limits network connection performance.

The Mellanox Innova IPsec EN adapter offloads the processing of the IPsec algorithms, frees up the CPU, and eases network bottlenecks.

Mellanox Innova IPsec network adapter integrates advanced network capabilities and crypto offloading in one card, utilizing only a single PCIe slot for both networking and crypto functions.