Mellanox Announces First Major Production Deployment of Linux Kernel-Based Open Ethernet Switch

SUNNYVALE, Calif. andMellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX), a leading supplier ofhigh-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for datacenter servers and storage systems, today announced that NGENIX, asubsidiary of Rostelecom, a leading Russian telecom provider, hasdeployed a 100Gb/s Ethernet Spectrum switch based on the Linux Switchdevdriver to support their next generation content distribution networkservice. This is the first major deployment of an open Ethernetswitch based on