1. September 2013
MetroX – Mellanox Long Haul Solutions

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 Constant demand for more – more compute, more storage , and more bandwidth
 Moving from localized data center to multipoint meshed data centers / cloud paradigm
 Data center power and space limitations require multiple data centers to be built
Why Do We Need Long-Haul Connectivity?
36% of data centers respondents said their facility would run out of power, cooling
or space in 2012; 60% claimed they would need to build new data center(s) and
perform upgrade over the next 3 years *
* May 2011- “Annual Data Center Survey” – Uptime Institute

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 Data recovery / business continuity utilizing remote sites
• Active-active data center
• Synchronous / 0 RPO (Recovery Point Objective)
- High bandwidth
- Low latency
- Management (SM) high availability
• Relatively short distances 30 - 50km
Why Do We Need Long-Haul Connectivity?

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MetroDX™ and MetroX™ Advantages
 MetroX™ and MetroDX™ extend InfiniBand and Ethernet RDMA reach
 Fastest interconnect over 40Gb/s InfiniBand or Ethernet links
 Supporting multiple distances
 Simple management to control distant sites
 Low-cost, low-power , long-haul solution
40Gb/s over Campus and Metro

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Data Center Expansion Example – High Performance Computing
With MetroX
Only two MetroX Systems
3X Bandwidth - 240Gb/s
20% less latency - 8us

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Disaster Recovery Application Example – Enterprise Data Centers

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 Data volume, data center limitations and business continuity require long reach connectivity
 MetroDX and MetroX deliver the most efficient long-haul RDMA solution
• Density, throughput, native RDMA, lossless
 Data center connectivity made fast and “local” with MetroDX and MetroX
Summary