BridgeX® BX4010 – 10/20/40G InfiniBand to 10GigE and 2/4/8G FC Gateway

Overview

The BX4010 is the first gateway allowing data centers to deploy I/O consolidation solutions using InfiniBand as the convergence fabric of choice. Networks have increased in size and managing a growing multi-infrastructure has become a daunting task. Enterprise data centers currently use three different networks—Storage Area Networks using Fibre Channel transport for storage access, Local Area Network using Ethernet transport for standard network access and System Area Networks using InfiniBand transport for inter-process communication and high-performance clustering. With the introduction of the BX4010 virtualization systems, enterprises can get rid of this complexity while improving performance, enable flexibility and save energy and cooling costs.

BX4010 when combined with Mellanox ConnectX-2 host adapters enables data centers to operate in high-performance 40Gb/s network speed on the hosts and connects lower speed Gigabit and 10GigE networks and 2, 4, 8Gb/s Fibre Channel SAN networks. BX4010 connects to existing SAN and LAN and at the same time, providing I/O consolidation.