Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. today introduced the Ethernet Switch MLAG, which allows hosts to connect to two separate switches with a pair of load balanced bonded interfaces and boosts speed of failure recovery.
Open Ethernet, as many of you may know, gives businesses the ability to choose switch solutions without constraints, separate hardware and software, and more effectively control network resources.
“Mellanox continues to drive the community effort to enable Open Ethernet switch solutions for cloud, web 2.0 and enterprise data centers,” said Amit Katz, senior director of Ethernet switch product marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “The open source MLAG release allows companies to improve their switch software stack by offering their customers enhanced network resiliency and better utilization of their network.”
For the end user, Open Ethernet is also beneficial; it provides end users with the ability to choose whether to use hardware or software in their network, allowing them to select the best platforms and software to run on the most efficient hardware.
The MLAG open source code can be installed and run on a Linux host.
