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NEC Contributes Network Virtualization to OpenDaylight
February 5th, 2014
NEC announced that its Virtual Tenant Network (VTN) contribution to the OpenDaylight Project is featured in the organization’s first release, called “Hydrogen,” which was revealed at the first annual OpenDaylight Summit. The OpenDaylight Project is a community-led and industry-supported open source ...
Mellanox Releases Ethernet Switch API
February 4th, 2014
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. today announced the availability of its Ethernet Switch Software Development Kit (SDK) Application Programming Interface (API) with full Layer 2 and Layer 3 functionality as an Open Source software platform. The release of the API is ...
Brocade and Emulex to Collaborate
January 29th, 2014
Emulex Corporation and Brocade, Inc. today announced a commitment to jointly develop and align the two companies' roadmaps around a new generation of advanced Gen 6 (32Gb) Fibre Channel networking solutions, enabling increased network performance, higher scalability and improved ...
QLogic Introduces Fibre Channel Adapter for OCP Servers
January 28th, 2014
QLogic today announced the industry's first Fibre Channel adapter specifically designed for use in Open Compute Project (OCP) servers. The QLogic QOE2562 8Gb Fibre Channel mezzanine adapter brings optimal security, maximum performance and enterprise-class reliability and manageability to OCP data centers. ...
Mellanox Releases 40 Gigabit Ethernet NIC Based on OCP Designs
January 27th, 2014
Mellanox Technologies today announced it is offering its 40GbE NIC as a proposed contribution to the Open Compute Project. The new 40GbE NIC is based on Mellanox’s energy-efficient, high-performance ConnectX-3 Pro ICs, and is designed to meet OCP specifications. ...
IDT Interconnects Utilized by Prodrive Technology
January 27th, 2014
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. today announced that its 20 Gbps RapidIO interconnect devices are used in Prodrive Technology’s motherboards based on the RapidIO Trade Association’s (RTA’s) data center standard specification that was released in the fourth-quarter of 2013. IDT’s RapidIO switch products ...
Emulex Introduces New Ethernet and Converged Network Adapters
January 22nd, 2014
Emulex Corporation today announced the next generation of high performance Ethernet connectivity solutions for virtualized, enterprise and cloud data centers. The OneConnect OCe14000 family of 10Gb and 40Gb Ethernet (10/40GbE) Network Adapters and Converged Network Adapters (CNAs), based on the next generation Emulex Engine ...
AMAX Integrates CloudMax Switch with OCP and ClusterMax Solutions
January 22nd, 2014
AMAX announced today the integration of the CloudMax ON-7448 Open Switch into its OCP and ClusterMax lines of data center and HPC cluster solutions. The CloudMax ON-7448 Open Switch is the modern answer to eliminating the rigidity and vendor lock-in ...
ExtremeGreen 2014 Workshop Issues Call for Papers
January 21st, 2014
Improving the energy efficiency of large-scale distributed systems (e.g. data centres and Clouds) is a key challenge for both academic and industrial organizations. Although the topic has gained lots of attention over the past years, some of the proposed solutions often seem conservative ...
Molex Releases 100-Ohm Backplane Connector
January 8th, 2014
Molex Incorporated recently released the Impact 100-Ohm backplane connector, which combines speed and density in a modular package designed for high speed applications. The scalable Impact connector technology provides data rates up to 25 Gbps with excellent signal density ...