Technologies, Ltd. , a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that its ConnectX-5 100Gb/s Ethernet Network Interface Card has achieved 126 million packets per second of record-setting forwarding capabilities running the open source Data Path Development Kit . This breakthrough performance signifies the maturity of high-volume server I/O to support large-scale, efficient production deployments of Network Function Virtualization in both Communication Service Provider and cloud data centers.