LiquidIO II Network Appliance Smart NICs

The Marvell^® LiquidIO^® II Network Appliance Smart NICs family of multi-function accelerator NICs delivers the industry's broadest range of compatible boards for security (SSL/IPsec, SRTP, Data-at-Rest), TCP, compression/decompression, and Intrusion Prevention/Anti-virus (IPS/AV) processing in secure network services and storage applications. The LiquidIO II Network Appliance Smart NICs enable the fastest time to market for appliances from 10Gbps to 80Gbps performance. These boards integrate unique capabilities such as C/C++ programmability and various network offload HW blocks. Marvell also provides RFC complaint toolkits such as TCP, SSL, IPsec which are used to jump start the development on these cards.

The LiquidIO Smart NICs family includes 40GbE with QSFP optical connections that provide the high performance and key features for OEM networking, security, and storage appliances. All LiquidIO II Network Appliance Smart NICs are supported by a portable host driver and APIs for hardware offload. Various product options are available within each family to suit the specific needs of each individual application.