Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX)(TASE:MLNX), a leading supplier of semiconductor-based server and storage interconnect products, today announced its performance-leading ConnectX® EN 10GigE Mezzanine adapter for the IBM BladeCenter achieved Blade.org compliance. Mellanox’s ConnectX 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters incorporate many of the physical layer technologies required to provide a cost and power-optimized 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution. The Mellanox ConnectX EN supports virtualization acceleration features like NetQueue and SR-IOV and I/O consolidation Ethernet features like Data Center Ethernet (DCE) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
“We are pleased that our highly-integrated, performance-leading ConnectX EN 10GigE mezzanine adapters have achieved Blade.org compliance, meaning they conform to the open IBM BladeCenter specification,” said TA Ramanujam, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Mellanox Technologies. “Applications such as clustered databases, web infrastructures and virtualized solutions that utilize IBM blade servers with ConnectX EN can deliver an enhanced user experience while reducing data center infrastructure power and complexity when compared to multiple, slower speed Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel connections.”
“IT Managers are increasingly evaluating blade servers to simplify their datacenter and lower costs,” said Lisa Galish, marketing chair for Blade.org. “By demonstrating compliance with the open BladeCenter specification, Mellanox can better promote its product to potential blade clients.”
Mellanox offers a complete family of ConnectX EN 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters to support a wide variety of cabling options including UTP, Twinax and CX4 for copper and SR, LR and LRM for fibre optics. Mellanox ConnectX EN provides data centers with a rich set of availability, performance and QoS features enabling virtualization, and supports emerging technologies like FCoE and DCE on a single adapter providing I/O consolidation.
Mellanox will demonstrate its ConnectX EN 10GigE Mezzanine adapter for the IBM BladeCenter at the Fibre Channel Industry Association booth (#507) during Storage Networking World (October 13-16, 2008) in Dallas, Texas. The demonstration will showcase ConnectX EN’s FCoE capabilities and benefits of the converged network adapter.