Mellanox Demonstrates Low-Latency Ethernet With RDMA

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. demonstrated Low-Latency Ethernet (LLE) at Interop. The demonstration showcases LLE running over Mellanox’s ConnectX EN 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters at line rate with industry-leading latency of 3 micro seconds.

“Enterprise data centers are adopting converged I/O solutions to help reduce costs for power, cooling, IT management and server consolidation,” said Michael Kagan, CTO of Mellanox Technologies. “Low latency Ethernet with RDMA capability enables end-users to derive tangible performance benefits from their mission-critical, transaction intensive applications while reducing power and consolidating their SAN (FCoE) and LAN (10GbE) traffic on lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet.”

Low Latency Ethernet is enabled through an efficient RDMA transport over Layer2 10GbE networks for performance-critical and low-latency applications. It extends I/O consolidation over Ethernet with an efficient RDMA solution in conjunction to TCP and FCoE. Mellanox’s unified I/O products provide one-wire solutions for any networking, clustering, storage, and management application with an enhanced quality of service to guarantee high productivity for enterprise applications.

Live Demonstrations at Interop Vegas
During Interop, Mellanox also demonstrated its new ConnectX ENt 10GBASE-T adapter and PhyX, 6-port, high-density, multi-protocol Physical layer silicon device. Other demos in the Mellanox booth include Mellanox’s BridgeX gateway devices performing I/O consolidation over FCoE, and Mellanox ConnectX adapters with a Fusion-io SAN showing extreme IOPS performance over InfiniBand-accelerated SSD storage.