Mellanox Ships More Than 200,000 Optical Transceiver Modules for Next Generation 100Gb/s Networks
March 16 2017 - 8:30AM
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Milestone Confirms Broad Adoption of 100Gb/s
Optical Networks by Hyperscale, Enterprise, Storage and HPC Data
Centers
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier
of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for
data center servers and storage systems, today announced
that it has shipped more than 200,000 VCSEL and silicon photonics
transceiver modules to serve the growing demand of hyperscale Web
2.0, cloud, and enterprise 100Gb/s networks. The modules are
delivered in the QSFP28 form factor as Active Optical Cables (AOCs)
or as standalone pluggable transceivers.
“The 100Gb/s optical transceivers market has ramped very quickly
and we have ramped our optical manufacturing capabilities with it,
and are shipping multiple product families in high volume,” said
Amir Prescher, senior vice president of business development and
general manager of the interconnect business at Mellanox.
“Multi-mode optics are the most cost effective solution on the
market today to connect 25G and 100G Ethernet servers and switches
over shorter data center reaches. For longer reaches, customers
selected our silicon photonics-based PSM4 transceivers as the most
cost effective, highest configurable, single-mode transceiver
available.”
“The 100Gb/s transceiver and AOC market grew dramatically in
2016 to about $1.15 billion with demand exceeding supply. The early
adopter hyperscale and HPC spaces lead consumption,” remarked Dale
Murray, Principal Analyst, Lightcounting Market Research. “Going
forward, we see 100G quickly surpassing the very popular 40G and
going on to have a very long life cycle.”
Recently, Mellanox announced that is has shipped over 100,000
Direct Attach Copper (DAC) cables for 100Gb/s networks. DAC are
used to link servers and storage to Top-of-Rack switches; typically
less than 3 meters in length. Transceivers and AOCs offer lengths
up to 2km. This announcement of optical transceivers confirms the
broader market expansion of 100Gb/s networks.
Key application segments driving demand are the next-generation
100Gb/s networks in hyperscale, Web 2.0, enterprise, and storage as
well as High Performance Computers. System builders are more
broadly upgrading from 10G and 40Gb/s to 25, 50 and 100Gb/s
networks.
To meet the high-volume demand and aggressive cost targets of
end customers, Mellanox designs its own ICs, uses automated
manufacturing and parallel system testing. Mellanox’s “end to end”
control of the supply chain and manufacturing lines ensures that
the Company can scale to meet market demand with limited reliance
on third-party suppliers.
As a result of advanced supply chain control and manufacturing
techniques, Mellanox is able to achieve the low bit error rate of
1E-15 for optical transceivers and AOCs, which is 1,000 times
better than the IEEE industry minimum specification.
Mellanox is exhibiting at the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC),
March 21-23 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA,
booth no. 3715. Mellanox will be showing live demonstrations of all
its 100Gb/s end-to-end solutions in switching, network adapter and
copper and optical cables and transceivers:
- Spectrum SN2700, SN2410 and SN2100
100Gb/s QSFP28/SFP28 switches
- ConnectX-4 and ConnectX-5
25G/50G/100Gb/s QSFP28/SFP28 network adapters
- LinkX 25G/50G/100Gb/s DAC and AOC
cables and SR4 and PSM4 transceivers
- New Quantum switches with 40 ports of
200Gb/s QSFP28 in 1RU chassis
- New ConnectX-6 adapters with two ports
of 200Gb/s QSFP28
- 200Gb/s 50G PAM4 silicon photonics
demonstrations
The Company will also be demonstrating interoperability of our
Silicon Photonics 100Gb/s PSM4 with Innolight, AOI, Oclaro, and
Hisense transceivers and interoperability demonstrations in the
Ethernet Alliance booth no. 1709.
Supporting Resources:
- Learn more about: LinkX cables and
transceivers
- Learn more about: Mellanox’s
complete 100GbE Switches and Adapter solutions
- Learn more about: 100G SR4
transceivers
- Follow Mellanox
on: Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn,
and YouTube
About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of
end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet smart interconnect solutions and
services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions
increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput
and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and
unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice
of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, cables and
transceivers, software and silicon that accelerate application
runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets
including high performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web
2.0, cloud, storage and financial services. More information is
available at: www.mellanox.com.
Note: Mellanox and LinkX are registered trademarks of
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. All other trademarks are property of
their respective owners.
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