QNAP offers various cost-effective network expansion cards for businesses and organizations to upgrade the bandwidth of their QNAP NAS to accommodate intensive data transfer and virtualization applications. The 10 GbE network expansion card uses a Mellanox® ConnectX® SmartNIC controller to accelerate backup/restore tasks for an ever-growing amount of data and intensive data transfer. iSER is also supported to optimize VMware® virtualization performance. Controller: Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx Connector: SFP+ PCIe interface: PCIe Gen3 x8 Transmission rates: 10Gbps Supported operating systems: QTS; Windows (Driver required); Linux (Driver required) Supported QNAP NAS: Models with PCIe slot(s) (1 free slot required) Bracket: Low-profile bracket pre-installed; full-height and specialized (for selected QNAP NAS) brackets are bundled Port and cable: SFP+ DAC cable (1.5M, 3M, 5M) or SFP+ OPTIC transceiver
