The Rocket 1628A PCIe Gen5 NVMe Switch Adapter delivers up to 64GB/s of uncompromised Gen5 transfer bandwidth and can support up to eight U.2/U.3 or E3.S NVMe SSDs via four MCIO ports and cable to SFF-8639 or MCIO/SFF-8654/SFF-1016 UBM and VPP compliant backplane connectivity. The compact, robust LP-MD2 form-factor Adapter is broadly compatible with industry-standard server and workstation chassis. 
 
Key Features:
Bus Interface: PCIe 5.0 x16
Port Count: 8x NVMe Ports
Connector Type: MCIO (SFF-1016 8x)
Device & Form factor: U.2/U.3, E3.S
Cooling: Full-Length Aluminum Heatsink
Ext. Power Connector: No
Adapter Form factor: LP-MD2, Single-Width
Operating System Support: Compatible with all operating systems that have native NVMe driver support
FRU: Yes (stores VPD data)
Hardware Secure Boot: Yes
Hot-Plug & Hot-Swap: Yes
OOB Managament: Yes
Synthetic Hierarchy: Yes