Mellanox introduced its new 36-Port 40 Gigabit Ethernet Switch line

Using its new silicon at the core, Mellanox introduced a new switch designed to help this manufacturer edge its way into the Ethernet switching market and add to its dominant InfiniBand position.

Mellanox showed a top-of-rack switch using nothing but QSFP ports and a Quad-to-Serial (QSA) direct attach copper breakout cable to connect one QSFP port in the switch to four SFP+ ports in servers. Also offered is a QSFP-to-SFP jack for those wanting to link with SFP. Mellanox's new silicon drastically reduces the size and complexity of what we saw under the system cover, and at the system level, the improvement of using the 40GbE QSFP ports at the core of its strategy boasted huge savings in power, rack space, and cabling. Borrowing from the InfiniBand market, Mellanox new system boasts a latency of 230ns—the lowest by almost an order of magnitude that we have seen so far in the Ethernet space.

July 27, 2011

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