Introduction to Mellanox MetroX™Long Haul Systems
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Introduction to Mellanox MetroX™Long Haul Systems
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Overview
Mellanox MetroX series extends Mellanox’s RDMA solutions for high-performance technology
to local, campus and metro applications. It enables data sharing and support for disaster recovery,
40Gb/s RDMA execution over distant sites - up to 80km using WDM long-haul transceivers.
While InfiniBand products have been traditionally deployed for their high-performance intercon-
nect benefits within the data center, Mellanox MetroX systems, implementing long-haul Infini-
Band, enable connecting between data centers deployed across multiple geographically
distributed sites, extending the same world-leading interconnect benefits of InfiniBand beyond
local data centers and storage clusters.
Mellanox’s MetroX is the perfect cost-effective, low power, easily managed and scalable solu-
tion that enables today’s data centers and storage to run over local and distributed InfiniBand fab-
rics, managed as a single unified network infrastructure. The TX6240 and TX6280 systems,
which implement long-haul InfiniBand, can transfer data up to distances of 40km and 80km,
respectively. The systems enable aggregate data and storage networking over a single, consoli-
dated InfiniBand fabric. The long-haul InfiniBand technology guarantees high-performance,
high-volume data sharing between distant sites, enabling existing data centers’ expansion, disas-
ter recovery, data mirroring and campus connectivity.
MetroX enables a campus network to assemble large aggregate clusters, all connected and easily
managed by an InfiniBand Subnet Manager - an embedded manager, OpenSM, or using Mella-
nox’s Unified Fabric Manager (UFM®).
Figure 1: Long Haul TX6240/TX6280 Front Side View
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Speed and Switching
Table 3 describes maximum throughput and interface speed per system model.
Table 3 - Speed and Switching Capabilities
System Model
10GbE* SFP+
Interfaces
40/56GbE QSFP+ Interfaces
Throughput
TX6240
N/A
2 FDR10 QSFP+ uplink
2 FDR QSFP+ downlink
80Gb/s
Summary of Contents for MetroX TX6240
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