Mellanox Introduces 10GBASE-T LAN on Motherboard

By DE Editors

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (Santa Clara,  CA), a supplier of semiconductor-based server and storage interconnect products, and Teranetics (Santa Clara, CA; www.teranetics.com), a provider of Ethernet PHY technology, announced an integrated device enabling 10GBASE-T LAN-on-Motherboard (LOM) controller for server and storage OEMs.

The ConnectX ENt, a PCIe 2.0 (5.0GT/s) device, delivers the next generation low power server Ethernet chip with dual 10GBASE-T ports for high-performance,  low-latency, and high availability. ConnectX ENt supports leading virtualization acceleration features like NetQueue and SR-IOV and also supports I/O consolidation fabrics like Data Center Ethernet (DCE), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and InfiniBand over Ethernet (IBoE).

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 fiber optics. Mellanox ConnectX EN and ConnectX ENt adapters provide data centers with a rich set of availability, performance and QoS features.

Mellanox will perform a 10GigE Windows Hyper-V demonstration using ConnectX 10GigE adapter technology at the Mellanox booth during the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference on November 4-6, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA.

For more information, visit Mellanox.

For previous DE coverage, see “Mellanox Announces Integrated Fiber Channel over Ethernet Adapter,” (April 2008).

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