Rev. 1.742 Mellanox Technologies
4 Interfaces
4.1 Supported Interfaces
The systems support the following interfaces:
• Data interfaces - InfiniBand
• 10/100/1000 MbE RJ45 management interface(s)
•USB
• RS232 Console port
• I²C interface
• Reset button
• Status and Port LEDs
In order to review the full configuration options matrix, refer to Table 4, “Management Interfaces
and FRUs”.
4.1.1 Data Interfaces
The data interfaces use QSFP28 connectors. The full list of interfaces per system is provided in
Table 3, “Speed and Switching Capabilities,” on page 11.
Each QSFP28 port can be connected with QSFP28 cable or connector for 40/56Gb/s/100Gb/s.
The system offers High Power class 4 transceivers support in all ports.
4.1.2 Speed
InfiniBand speed is auto-adjusted by the infiniBand protocol.
Mellanox systems support QDR/FDR10/FDR/EDR InfiniBand.
• FDR10 is a non-standard InfiniBand data rate, where each lane of a 4X port runs a bit
rate of 10.3125 Gb/s with a 64b/66b encoding, resulting in an effective bandwidth of 40
Gb/s. FDR10 supports 20% more bandwidth over QDR due to better encoding rate.
• FDR is an InfiniBand data rate, where each lane of a 4X port runs a bit rate of 14.0625
Gb/s with 64b/66b encoding, resulting in an effective bandwidth of 56.25 Gb/s.
• EDR is an InfiniBand data rate, where each lane of a 4X port runs a bit rate of 25 Gb/s
with 64b/66b encoding, resulting in an effective bandwidth of 100 Gb/s.
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