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Mellanox Unveils Turnkey PDKs For InfiniBand Switches

Mellanox Technologies Ltd announced the industry's first manufacturing-ready product design kits (PDKs) for InfiniBand switches, which provide OEMs significant time to market and cost advantages. Mellanox introduced PDKs for both mid-range 24-port and high-density 144-port InfiniBand switches. The PDKs support both InfiniBand 4X (10Gbps) and 12X (30Gbps) designs.

The Mellanox PDKs are complete manufacturing-ready kits that enable OEMs to launch new InfiniBand switch products into mass production using high volume contract manufacturing partners. These PDKs come complete with all the necessary hardware, software, manufacturing information, and documentation to allow OEMs to greatly reduce the time to market and investment required to develop industry-leading InfiniBand switch solutions. The switch designs are ideal for clustered database, communications, storage and high performance computing applications.

"The introduction of these product kits marks the transition of InfiniBand into a mainstream, high volume market," said Yuval Leader, vice president of systems solutions for Mellanox Technologies. "Providing a complete turnkey design enables OEMs to quickly engage with leading contract manufacturers and deliver robust solutions to the market."

The PDKs are based on Mellanox industry-leading InfiniScale and InfiniScale III InfiniBand switch semiconductors delivered in world-class, fault tolerant modular system designs. The systems are completely tested and come integrated with industry leading software and hardware management features. The PDKs also enable OEMs to customize the platforms by developing enhanced software for management, advance routing algorithms, performance monitoring, etc.