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[March 07, 2016]

Mellanox Adds Cumulus Linux Support for Ethernet Switches

Mellanox (News - Alert)® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced it has added Cumulus® Linux® support for the Spectrum (News - Alert) line of 10/25, 40/50, and 100 Gb/s Ethernet switches. The addition of Cumulus Linux provides customers a best in class Network Operating System (NOS) with the highest performance and most predictable Ethernet switch platform. The availability of third party NOS solutions is the cornerstone of the Open Ethernet initiative and provides customers with freedom of choice.

"The addition of Cumulus Linux means we now give our customers the option to choose the leading Linux NOS on the market," said Amit Katz, vice president Ethernet switch sales, Mellanox Technologies. "We are confident our Ethernet switch platforms will continue to deliver unmatched predictability, packet performance and the ability to achieve Web-Scale IT efficiencies."

In order to achieve more agile innovation and to avoid vendor lock-in, many of the largest and most advanced web scale businesses have rejected closed, proprietary, black box switches. Taking a page from these hyperscale data centers, more modestly sized businesses are emulating these architectures and adopting open, disaggregated switches - which separate the choice of hardware and software components. These open networking platforms enable customers to choose best of breed components in order to optimize and automate their data centers to meet their business needs. The fully integrated and tested combination of Spectrum switches and Cumulus Linux is the ideal way to achieve this agility, with an open networking platform that frees enterprises to extend and improve the pace of innovation, efficiency, and automation of their data center infrastructure.

Mellanox is helping to accelerate the adoption of open networking and the transformation of businesses to achieve web-scale IT efficiencies. The partnership between Mellanox and Cumulus Networks is a realization of the Open-Ethernet initiative and furthers both companies' long-standing commitment to open networking, as demonstrated by their contributions to the Open Compute Project (OCP), Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI (News - Alert)), Linux Switchdev, and Open Network Install Environment (ONIE). In addition, Mellanox has made multiple contributions of 10/25, 40/50, & 100 Gb/s Ethernet switch and OCP (News - Alert) adapters designs.

"Mellanox is uniquely positioned to capitalize on a big opportunity as the industry continues to move towards open solutions," said JR Rivers, CEO and co-founder, Cumulus Networks. "With Mellanox's performance-focused value proposition, Open Ethernet initiative, and large base of clients, Cumulus can expand into new markets and help accelerate customers' move to Web IT. Open is becoming the industry standard at every level in modern infrastructure builds. As ecosystems open up, customers win; all due to selecting the best technology under the best terms."

"At Cloudalize, we offer the GPU Desktop as a Service (GDaaS) Platform to a wide range of partners for the cloud solutions they deliver to their customers, so we demand performance, predictability, ad industrial-grade control of our networking equipment," said Benny Willen, CEO Cloudalize. "Cloudalize's requirements for high performance networking, that could be provisioned as easily as servers, led us to look at an Open solution in the form of Cumulus Linux running on top of Mellanox's Ethernet Switches. With Cumulus Linux, we could leverage many of our server tools to automate our network orchestration and monitoring activities. With Mellanox Ethernet Switches, we get the predictable performance we need, without worrying about packet loss."

Come see how to transform your data center and achieve web-scale IT efficiency with the Cumulus Linux running on the Spectrum switch at the Mellanox booth #B4 at the OCP Summit taking place March 9-10 at the San Jose Convention Center.

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About Mellanox

Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ:MLNX) is a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect solutions and services for servers, storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. Mellanox intelligent interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance. Mellanox offers a choice of high performance solutions: network and multicore processors, network adapters, switches, cables, software and silicon, that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage, network security, telecom and financial services. More information is available at www.mellanox.com.

About Cumulus Networks

Cumulus Networks helps customers realize cost-effective, high capacity networking for modern data centers. Linux transformed the economics and innovation for data center compute, and Cumulus Linux is doing the same for the network. It radically reduces the costs and complexities of operating modern data center networks for businesses of all sizes. Cumulus Networks has received venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital (News - Alert), Peter Wagner and four of the original VMware founders. For more information visit cumulusnetworks.com or follow @cumulusnetworks.

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