Mellanox announced its ConnectX 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers have been selected for LAN on Motherboard (LOM) applications across Supermicro's family of server products, eliminating the need for separate add-in I/O cards. Supermicro is a provider of performance and power optimized server boards, chassis, and rack and blade systems that target data center, high-performance computing, workstation, storage networks and standalone server environments. Mellanox's ConnectX 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller is a single-chip solution that provides I/O performance, small footprint, and low power consumption making it ideal for Supermicro's LOM requirements. In addition, ConnectX provides virtualization acceleration engines and integrated Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support delivering valuable virtual machine scalability, I/O consolidation, and data center infrastructure future-proofing benefits.