Mellanox ConnectX EN 10 GbE Drivers for several OS

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced the availability of ConnectX EN 10 Gigabit Ethernet drivers for a broad array of major operating systems, including Windows, Linux, VMware Infrastructure, Citrix XenServer and FreeBSD. With these broad software platform certifications, Mellanox ConnectX EN solutions enable IT managers with the most efficient, flexible and high-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking for data centers and high-performance systems.

Mellanox ConnectX EN Dual-Port
10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Card

"This broad OS certification of Mellanox ConnectX EN 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters is a strong market validation of our industry-leading networking capabilities and solutions," said Wayne Augsburger, vice president of business development at Mellanox Technologies. "Supporting both virtualized and non-virtualized environments with wire-speed performance and low-latency, ConnectX EN adapters deliver true data center convergence, consolidation and operational efficiency."

Mellanox’s ConnectX EN 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions provide the required flexibility and efficiency to enable true I/O consolidation for virtualized and enterprise data centers. ConnectX EN provides line rate and very low-latency and supports all the stateless offload features, virtualization accelerations, Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). ConnectX EN supports a wide variety of cabling options, including UTP, CX4 for copper and SR, LR and LRM for fibre optics.

Availability
Mellanox 10 Gigabit Ethernet drivers and the common firmware for ConnectX devices are available to customers through Mellanox partners and also on the Mellanox website.