Artesyn SharpSwitch PCIE-9205 PCI Express intelligent network interface card

The Artesyn SharpSwitch PCIE-9205 PCI Express intelligent network interface card eliminates the need for a costly external load balancer in wireless, communications, broadcast and streaming media applications.

It is suitable for low-power, dense computing applications due to the Intel Xeon D series processor and Intel Ethernet multihost controller (code name Red Rock Canyon), which provides dual 100 G Ethernet interfaces and a 100 G switch.

The product uses Open vSwitch offload to ensure the maximum number of cores are available for payload processing in NFV applications. The SharpSwitch card can be used to provide high-speed ingress and egress while doing Open vSwitch offload, allowing a high percentage of compute resources in the system to be used for application processing, such as baseband processing, IPSec termination or voice and video transcoding.

By using the SharpSwitch PCIE-9205 as an Open vSwitch accelerator, the vast majority of the available processor cycles in the system can be used for payload VMs.

The product is optimised to work in MaxCore PCIe platforms which leverage PCIe cards to create very low latency and low OpEx systems for applications such as vRAN, mini-CRAN, video transcode, VoLTE and security gateways.