{"product_id":"lenovo-ibm-nvidia-mellanox-cx456a-connectx-4-dual-port-qsfp28-100gbe-edr-infiniband-vpi-pcie-3-0-x16-network-interface-card-nic-00mm963","title":"Lenovo \/ IBM NVIDIA Mellanox CX456A ConnectX-4 Dual Port QSFP28 100GbE EDR InfiniBand VPI PCIe 3.0 x16 Network Interface Card (NIC) 00MM963","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--StartFragment--\u003e\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=us-ascii\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\n\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003ea {\n    text-decoration: none;\n    color: #464feb;\n}\ntr th, tr td {\n    border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;\n}\ntr th {\n    background-color: #f5f5f5;\n}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch1\u003eLenovo \/ IBM NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-4 CX456A Dual-Port QSFP28 100GbE EDR InfiniBand VPI PCIe 3.0 x16 Network Interface Card (NIC) 00MM963\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eLenovo \/ IBM NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-4 CX456A (00MM963)\u003c\/strong\u003e is a high-performance enterprise network adapter designed for modern data centers, cloud computing, software-defined storage, virtualization, AI infrastructure, and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. 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