Mellanox Connect X-3 EN Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) with PCI Express 3. 0 delivers high-bandwidth and industry-leading Ethernet connectivity for performance-driven server and storage applications in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing, and embedded environments. Clustered databases, web infrastructure, and high frequency trading are just a few applications that will achieve significant throughput and latency improvements resulting in faster access, real-time response and more users per server. Connect X-3 EN improves network performance by increasing available bandwidth while decreasing the associated transport load on the CPU especially in virtualized server environments. Connect X-3 is well suited for blade server and LAN on Motherboard (LOM) designs. Its integrated PHYs, and minimal additional external component requirements were designed for a small PCB footprint. It also has an array of power saving features with real-time monitors that lower total system power usage. World-class Ethernet performance RDMA over Converged Ethernet - Connect X-3 utilizing IBTA Ro CE technology provides efficient RDMA services, delivering low-latency and high-performance to bandwidth and latency sensitive applications. With link-level interoperability in existing Ethernet infrastructure, network administrators can leverage existing data center fabric management solutions. Sockets acceleration Applications utilizing TCP/UDP/IP transport can achieve industry-leading throughput over 10 or 40 Gb E. The hardware-based stateless offload and flow steering engines in Connect X-3 reduce the CPU overhead of IP packet transport, freeing more processor cycles to work on the application. I/O virtualization Connect X-3 EN with Virtual Intelligent Queuing (Virtual-IQ) technology provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation and protection for virtual machines (VM) within the server. Connect X-3 EN gives data center managers better server utilization and LAN and SAN