There is a myth among most of the people that the products like switches, adapter cards, data cables, etc, offered by the renowned group Mellanox can be used only by organizations dealing in the online business or outsourcing their products and services in the offshore markets. Surprisingly, this is not the real truth, these products can also be used by the organizations which are extended in the vast areas and deal with the huge data set. You will agree that the organizations like universities, companies manufacturing different types of products, etc have their operations not only extended in broad area but also across the vast area and have to deal with a huge data set.
Interestingly, keeping the requirements of such organizations in concern the leading supplier of these products has introduced MetroX TX6100 series that offer robust solutions for single location data center network expanded to an area up-to 10 km like the campus of a university, or metro network. Thus giving the new dimensions to a series of Mellanox’s product used for data sharing and transmission. The worth mentioning benefit of Mellanox MetroX is that it not only facilitates the smooth sharing of the huge data between the centres located within the particular location but also within the centres located between multiple sites, thus exploring the benefits and reach of InfiniBand RDMA and Ethernet RoCE across the locally located data centers and storage clusters.
The benefits of Mellanox MetroX TX6100 Series are referred below
1. Cost effective, less power, and long haul solutions as compared to InfiniBand or Ethernet fabric;
2. Executes RDMA beyond the distant site;
3. Easy to Manage; and
4. Extends the range of RDMA networks in the range of 10 km over dark fiber.
The key features of Mellanox MetroX TX6100 can be summarized as follows:
1. 6 Long-haul (40Gb/s) ports in a 1U system
2. Up to 240Gb/s long-haul aggregate data
3. 6 Downlink (56Gb/s) VPI ports
4. Compliant with IBTA 1.2.1 and 1.3
5. 1 Virtual Lanes for QoS applications
6. Compliant with Mellanox LR4 QSFP+ 40Gb/s transceivers
7. Redundant power supplies and fan drawers
On the basis of the above description it can be said Mellanox offers not only robust solution for large business organizations but also for the organizations that have their operations extended within the fixed geographical area.
