I am proud to announce that Mellanox’s SwitchX® line of InfiniBand and Ethernet switches have received a gold certification for Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) by the Internet Protocol Forum. Adding IPv6 support to our SwitchX series is another milestone for Mellanox’s InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions, and demonstrates our commitment to producing quality, interoperable InfiniBand and Ethernet products optimized for the latest Internet Protocols.
Mellanox’s drive to satisfy strong requirements has led to receiving the gold certification as part of the IPv6 Ready Logo Program which is a conformance and interoperability testing program designed to increase user confidence by demonstrating that IPv6 is the future of network architecture.
We at Mellanox feel that as global technology adoption rates increase, there is a greater need for larger networks and subsequently more IP addresses. Just as background, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), still in dominant use, is now reaching the limit of its capacity. The next generation of IP – IPv6 – is designed to provide a vastly expanded address space and quadruples the number of network address bits from 32 bits in IPv4 to 128 bits, providing more than enough globally unique IP addresses for every networked device on the planet.
Regards,
Amit Katz
Director, Product Management
