Mellanox connected EN Gigabit Ethernet media access controller (Mac) with PCI Express 3.0 delivers high-bandwidth and industry-leading Ethernet connectivity for performance-driven server and storage applications in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing, and embedded environments. Clustered databases, web infrastructure, and High frequency trading are just a few applications that will achieve significant throughput and latency improvements resulting in faster access, real-time response and more users per server. Connected EN improves network performance by increasing available bandwidth while decreasing the associated transport load on the CPU especially in virtualized server environments. Connection is well suited for blade server and LAN on motherboard (lom) designs. Its integrated PHYs, and minimal additional external component requirements were designed for a small PCB footprint. It also has an array of power saving features with real-time monitors that lower total system power usage.