Voltaire, a provider of data centre fabrics, has released a low-latency, high-performance Layer 2/3 top-of-rack switch Vantage 6024, optimised for virtualised data centres and cloud computing environments.
The company claims that the new switch supports converged enhanced ethernet (CEE) capabilities and provides power-efficient and lowest latency capabilities on 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
The combination of the Vantage 8500 Layer 2 core switches and new Vantage 6024 switches enables customers to build flat data centre fabrics of more than 3,400 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports with non-blocking, lossless switch capacity of 69.12 Terabits per second, Voltaire said.
Voltaire said that its Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) software orchestrates the fabric as a single logical entity, enforcing fabric-wide service policies, providing real-time fabric and application level monitoring, and simplifying fabric administration across many physical and virtual switching elements.
The company has also released a 10GbE switching and software infrastructure offering for low latency trading that is comprised of the Vantage 6024 switch, Messaging Accelerator (VMA) software, network interface cards and cables.
Voltaire is also offering VMA software for 20-40Gb/s InfiniBand fabrics in a variety of pre-configured bundles that include the Layer 2/3 switch, VMA software licenses, 10GbE Network Interface Cards (NICs) and cables to provide an offering that is optimised for both exchange connectivity and external clients.
Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing at Voltaire, said: "By coupling Voltaire VMA software and our new Vantage 6024 10GbE switch, customers can rest assured that they are getting the lowest possible latency on 10GbE for high frequency trading in a package that is well-suited for the limited space in co-located environments."
