Mellanox Completes Acquisition of Kotura

Mellanox Technologies announced that it completed the acquisition of privately held Kotura, a developer of advanced silicon photonics optical interconnect technology for high-speed networking applications, at a total cash purchase price of approximately $82 million, subject to certain working capital and other adjustments.

According to the company, the transaction enhances Mellanox's ability to provide leading technologies for high speed, scalable and efficient end-to-end interconnect solutions, and is expected to increase its competiveness to "meet the growing demands of high-performance, Web 2.0, cloud, data center, database, financial services and storage applications."

Kotura's current location in Monterey Park, Calif., will serve as Mellanox's first R&D center in the United States.

"Through our acquisition of Kotura, we now have the silicon photonics technology to continue the development of best-in-class, next-generation InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions for 100Gb/s and beyond," said Eyal Waldman, president and CEO of Mellanox. "This acquisition solidifies our strategy to provide full end-to-end interconnect solutions for our server and storage customers. We look forward to the integration of Kotura's technologies into our solutions, and we welcome Kotura's employees into the Mellanox family."

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.