SwitchX® EN

Overview

SwitchX, the fifth generation switching IC from Mellanox, further improves the company’s tradition of leading bandwidth, low-latency, and scalability by integrating Ethernet and Fibre Channel traffic on a single ‘one-wire’ fabric. The industryleading integration of 144 PHYs which are flexible enough to run 1 Gigabit to 10 Gigabit speeds per lane, makes SwitchX an obvious choice for OEMs that must address end-user requirements for faster and more robust applications. Reduced power, footprint and a fully integrated PHY capable of connectivity across PCBs, backplanes as well as passive and active copper/fibre cables allow interconnect fabrics based on SwitchX to be utilized by network architects deploying leading, fabric-flexible computing and storage systems with the lowest TCO.

  • Industry-leading Cut Through Latency
  • I/O Consolidation
  • Virtualization Support
  • Data Center Bridging (DCB)
  • Low Cost Solution
  • Fully Integrated Phy
  • Up to 4Tb/s switching capacity
  • Flexible Port Configurations
  • Adaptive Routing
  • Congestion Control
  • Quality of Service 802.1p, DIFFSERV
  • Switch Partitioning
  • Multichip Support
  • Energy Efficient Ethernet
  • IEEE 1588 Clock Synchronization
  • Active Power Governor
  • 36 40GbE ports, 64 10/20GbE ports,
  • PCI Express 2.0 x4 5GT/s (1.1 compatible)
  • SPI Flash interface, I2C
  • IEEE 1149.1 boundary-scan JTAG
  • Link status LED indicators
  • General purpose I/O
  • 45 x 45mm FCBGA
Mellanox SwitchX® 10GbE and 40GbE switches have been tested and qualified by the UNH-IOL 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet Consortiums. The results from the Optical Interoperability testing performed on the switches can be accessed through the following links:
SwitchX 10GigE Interoperability Report
SwitchX 40GigE Interoperability Report