second (Mpps), and a development kit (DPDK). For storage workloads, ConnectX-5 offers a range of innovative accelerations, such as
signature switching in hardware (T10-DIF), embedded PCIe switches, and NVMe over Fabric target offload. The ConnectX-5 adapter
card also brings advanced Open vSwitch offload to telco and cloud data centers to drive extremely high packet rates and throughput
while reducing CPU resource consumption, improving the efficiency of data center infrastructure.