Mellanox - KEY FACTS
Founded: 1999 in Jokne'am, Israel
headquarters: Sunnyvale, Californian, USA
Business area: Production of server components
Product group: Computer networking products
Mellanox
InfiniBand and Ethernet technology
About Mellanox - specialist for network technologies
Mellanox is a US-Israeli company specializing in the development of network technologies. The company is a market leader in the areas of Ethernet and Infiband, which is why we use various of its core technologies in here in our company. In addition to the performance of Mellanox products, we are particularly impressed by their reliability. A Mellanox Infiniband switch, for example, can handle high loads over the long term, but at the same time has excellent energy efficiency management. Other core products of the company are adapters, network processors or even Ethernet cables and transceivers. Global corporations such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard rely on Mellanox hardware to provide their online services. The company is therefore now not only specialized in classic network solutions, but also in cloud, machine learning, Web 2.0 and data center support. Mellanox's profile therefore meets our requirements perfectly.
Mellanox Infiniband solutions
Inifiniband is known to be the common specification for hardware interfaces to transfer data serially at high speed over short distances with low latency. Put simply, it is the hardware specification that is used in a standardized way in data centers because it delivers exactly what is needed in these environments. All Mellanox Infiniband solutions are therefore of interest to us. This applies especially to technologies for distributed transmission. Infiniband uses bidirectional point-to-point connections to keep the speed high and the delay times low. For computing nodes, we therefore rely on a Mellanox switch, which was specially developed for Infiniband solutions. This switch is able to connect the computing power of our hardware to the respective destinations. A Mellanox switch can have 16 up to 64 ports and transmit at 10 GbE or 100 GbE. We use it for clouds, storage applications (backups, recovery processes and mirroring. In addition, a Mellanox Infiniband switch is also ideal for latency-critical processes - such as financial market analyses.
Mellanox Connect X3
Mellanox Connect x3 is a family of network adapters and Gigabit Ethernet network expansion cards. We use them because they not only enable high bandwidth. They also provide excellent connectivity for server and storage applications in high-performance environments such as our data center. A Mellanox Connect X3 card provides dedicated adapter resources to isolate and protect virtual machines within a server. In this way, a single NIC becomes a family of virtual NICs - without sacrificing performance. Server utilization is improved. In addition, the costs are reduced, for example those caused by power consumption. The cabling is also significantly less complex. We use Mellanox Connect X3 Ethernet expansion cards especially for cloud solutions, as they can support a particularly large number of users in the same infrastructure. This reduces costs for you as a customer.