Comments on: Podcast: Mellanox Rolls Out SwitchX FDR InfiniBand with 40 GigE Built In

By: kral

kral — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:05:04 +0000

El IC SwitchX entre otras cosas, ha incorporado un L3 motor de enrutamiento y un complejo motor de ACL política que le permite soportar la más alta del mundo la capacidad de conmutación, mientras que el apoyo a varias características de L2 y L3 incluyendo y no limitado a LLDP, BGP, VRRP, IGMP. SwitchX ofrece los mejores niveles del mundo de la densidad, la energía, la latencia y la eficiencia.

By: It's called HPC

It's called HPC — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:31:29 +0000

Funny, someone not caring about IB in the HPC market is like someone who doesn’t care about 4G in the cellular market. Sure, let’s just stick with rotary telephones and 300baud modems for our data delivery

By: Nobody

Nobody — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:51:17 +0000

L2 switching has been done by many before with similar latencies with much higher feature sizes. It turns out that enterprise as a target audience really cares about what you’d call “software” — Arista and BNT got this early on and they are making a killing.

From the peanut gallery, it will be interesting to see you push your chip to switch vendors only to turn around the week after and sell you own switches.

By: well

well — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:35:00 +0000

I believe the word “world” is regarding the hardware features and not the software. are you aware of competing switch ICs that match or beat M’s performance? Enterprises also don’t buy ICs…which this is…

By: Nobody

Nobody — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:51:42 +0000

Gotta love how marketers use “world” as if it was a tangible and measurable quantity.

You know, SDKs have the _potential_ to support a “world” of features too.

The problem is that enterprise doesn’t buy on potential, you actually have to deliver the features in a more polished form other than roll-your-own.

By: Mellanox

Mellanox — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:06:33 +0000

The SwitchX IC among other things has a built-in L3 routing engine and a complex ACL policy engine that allows it to support the world’s highest switching capacity while supporting several L2 and L3 features including and not limited to LLDP, BGP, VRRP, IGMP. SwitchX provides the world’s best levels of density, power, latency and efficiency.

By: Nobody

Nobody — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:19:50 +0000

I don’t care about IB. “Best in class Ethernet switch” ? What about LLDP, BGP, VRRP, IGMP? Sounds like a layer-2 switch with layer-3 services left as an exercise for the customer. At any rate, comparing L2 switching numbers with the competition out there than extends well beyond L2 is at best misleading.