Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of
high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center
servers and storage systems, today announced it is offering its 40GbE
NIC as a proposed contribution to the Open Compute Project. The new
40GbE NIC is based on Mellanox’s energy-efficient, high-performance
ConnectX®-3 Pro ICs, and is designed to meet OCP specifications.
Available now, the ConnectX®-3 Pro OCP-based 40GbE NICs with RDMA over
Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and overlay network offloads offer optimized
latency and performance for converged I/O infrastructures while
maintaining extremely low system power consumption.
Mellanox's 40GbE NIC is based on energy-efficient, high-performance ConnectX-3 Pro ICs, and is designed to meet OCP specifications. Available now, the ConnectX-3 Pro OCP-based 40GbE NICs with RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and overlay network offloads offer optimized latency and performance for converged I/O infrastructures while maintaining extremely low system power consumption. (Photo: Business Wire)
“Mellanox has been active in the OCP Network Project and has contributed
to the open hardware and software model to help achieve OCP’s vision for
true open standards and faster pace in network technology innovation,”
said Kevin Deierling, vice president of marketing at Mellanox
Technologies. “We’re pleased to continue our collaborations with
Facebook in delivering 40GbE NIC technology to OCP to deliver unmatched
performance and rich feature-sets that enable superior data center
productivity and efficiency.”
“Mellanox has played an important role in a number of OCP projects,
including our new networking project,” said Frank Frankovsky, president
and chairman of the Open Compute Project Foundation. “We’re pleased to
see them propose the 40GbE OCP-based NIC as a contribution to OCP and
look forward to collaborating with them further as we work to make open
hardware a reality.”
Visit Mellanox Technologies at the OCP Summit (January 28-29, 2014)
Visit Mellanox during the OCP Summit (booth #C21) from January 28-29 at
the San Jose Convention Center to learn more about its OCP-compliant 10
and 40GbE NICs. Mellanox will also exhibit its SX1024-OCP,
SwitchX®-2-based Top-of-Rack switch, which supports 48 10GbE SFP+ ports
and up to 12 40GbE QSFP ports, enabling non-blocking connectivity within
the OCP’s Open Rack, or alternatively, enabling 60 10GbE server ports
when using QSFP+ to SFP+ breakout cables to increase rack efficiency for
less bandwidth demanding applications. Mellanox will also exhibit its
SX1036-OCP, SwitchX®-2-based spine switch, which supports 36 40GbE QSFP
ports, enabling non-blocking connectivity between the racks. The new
switches are also the first that support Open Network Install
Environment (ONIE) over x86 processors, which will enable new levels of
scalability and performance.
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About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and
Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage.
Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by
providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data
faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability.
Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters,
switches, software, cables and silicon that accelerate application
runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets
including high performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0,
cloud, storage and financial services. More information is available at www.mellanox.com.
Mellanox, ConnectX and SwitchX are registered trademarks of Mellanox
Technologies, Ltd. All other trademarks are property of their respective
owners.
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