Mellanox Unveils 100Gb/s EDR InfiniBand Switch at ISC '14

Mellanox Technologies announced the launch of Switch-IB - the next generation of its InfiniBand switch IC optimized for HPC, Web 2.0, database and cloud datacentres - and the first-ever switch IC capable of 100Gb/s per port speeds at this week's ISC '14 in Leipzig, Germany.

Switch-IB is the world's fastest switch with 36-ports of 100Gb/s to provide 7.2Tb/s of switching capacity - 250 percent higher than the nearest alternative - with industry-low 130ns of latency and power consumption. Switch-IB is also the first to introduce router capabilities that enable full isolation and scalability to meet tomorrow's needs of hundreds-of-thousand node clusters and beyond.

Switch-IB enables application managers to use the power of data. It integrates 144 SerDes which can operate at 1Gb/s to 25Gb/s speeds per lane and delivers 5.4 billion packets per second, making Switch-IB the best solution for high-performance computing, cloud, Web 2.0, database and storage centres. Switch-IB enables these centres to deliver high application performance, to become more efficient, and to reduce their expenses.

With the exponential growth of data being generated around the world and the increase of applications that can take advantage of real-time massive data processing for high performance, data analytics, business intelligence, national security and 'Internet of Things' applications, the market demands faster and more efficient interconnect solutions.

To read the full news release click here, and learn how their Mellanox's interconnect solutions increase cloud ROI, accelerate transactions, reduce database recovery times, and help businesses analyse big data fast here.