Mellanox Technologies

Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
Public
Traded as NASDAQ: MLNX
TASE: MLNX
Industry Communication Equipment
Founded 1999 (1999)
Founder Eyal Waldman
Roni Ashuri
Headquarters Sunnyvale, California and Yokne'am, Israel[1]
Key people
 Eyal Waldman, CEO
Products Ethernet and InfiniBand switches
Ethernet and InfiniBand host bus adapters
Complete end-to-end interconnect solutions
Revenue

Increase US$658,1 Million (FY15)[2]

Increase US$463.6 Million (FY14)[3]
Increase US$118.31 Million (FY12)
Increase US$111.38 Million (FY12)
Number of employees
 1818 (March 2015)
Website www.mellanox.com
Mellanox Headquarters in Yokneam

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox offers a choice of interconnect products: adapters, switches, software, cables and silicon for a range of markets including computing, enterprise Data centers, Web 2.0, Cloud, Storage and financial services.

Company overview

Mellanox Technologies provides InfiniBand and Ethernet switches for servers and storage used in enterprise data centers[4] and also makes its own integrated circuits to support the InfiniBand protocol.[5] Mellanox offers interconnect products: adapters, switches, software and silicon for a range of markets including high performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services.

The company is listed on NASDAQ.

Corporate history

Mellanox was founded in 1999 by former executives of Galileo Technology (which was acquired by Marvell Technology Group in October 2000 for $2.8bn[6]) Eyal Waldman and Roni Ashuri.[3] Initially founded as a integrated circuit (chip) manufacturer, it evolved into a producer of complete end-to-end systems by 2009.[7] The company raised over $89 million in 3 financing rounds of venture capital. Investors included Raza Venture Management, Sequoia Capital, US Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Banc of America Securities, China Development Investment Bank, Gemini Israel Funds, Jerusalem Global Ventures, and Walden Israel Venture Capital. Strategic investors included Dell, IBM, JNI, Quanta Computer, Vitesse Semiconductor and Sun Microsystems.[8][9]

The company went public in 2007, with an initial public offering on NASDAQ that raised $102 million, and valued the company at over half a billion dollars.[10] Since 2010, Oracle Corporation has been a major investor in the company, holding around 10% of its stock.[8] Oracle stated it has no plans to acquire Mellanox, but uses its InfiniBand technology in its Exadata and Exalogic appliances.[11]

Strategic Acquisitions

In February 2016, Mellanox executed its largest acquisition to date, acquiring publicly held EZchip, the leading provider of Networking Processor Units (NPUs) and advanced multi-core processors (from EZchip's earlier acquisition of Tilera). The addition of network and multi-core processor technology enables Mellanox to provide end to end intelligent interconnect solutions.

In July 2014, Mellanox acquired privately held Integrity Project, an accomplished team of software technology veterans. Mellanox acquired Integrity Project for its software expertise in the fields of connectivity, low-level development, real-time applications, and security, which further enhances Mellanox commitment to providing superior solutions. The acquisition positions Mellanox to broaden its customer base by adding software solutions designed to enable customers to achieve optimal performance from all interconnect components. [12]

In July 2013, Mellanox acquired privately held Kotura, Inc., a leading innovator and developer of advanced silicon photonics optical interconnect technology for high-speed networking applications. Silicon photonics is expected to play a significant role in the enablement of high-speed networks. With world class expertise and over 120 granted or pending patents in CMOS photonics and packaging design, Kotura has made a number of ground breaking innovations in optical interconnects by integrating multiple high speed active and passive optical functions onto a silicon chip. Kotura's technology will enable Mellanox's interconnect products to scale to bandwidths of 100Gbit/s and beyond, and have longer reach optical connectivity at a lower cost, allowing users to further reduce their capital and operating expenses and offer new revenue-generating services. The acquisition expands Mellanox's ability to deliver cost-effective, high-speed networks with next generation optical connectivity, allowing data center customers to meet the growing demands of high-performance, Web 2.0, cloud, data center, database, financial services and storage applications. Mellanox believes that the Kotura acquisition enhances its ability to provide leading technologies for high speed, scalable and efficient end-to-end interconnect solutions. The Kotura acquisition is synergistic with Mellanox's acquisition of IPtronics because Mellanox 100Gbit/s silicon photonics interconnect solutions will incorporate the high-speed opto-electronic technology from Kotura and the modulator drivers and TIAs from IPtronics. [13]

In July 2013, Mellanox acquired privately held IPtronics A/S, a leader in optical interconnect component design for digital communications. Strategically focused on optical interconnects and active copper interconnect solutions for the communications market, IPtronics offers Multichannel Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) Drivers, Modulator Drivers (MD) and Transimpedance Amplifiers (TIA) with significantly lower power consumption, richer feature sets and lower costs compared to existing solutions in the market place today. The technology Mellanox acquired in connection with the transaction bridges the gap between optical and electrical interfaces and enables system providers to overcome the physical constraints of using copper-based connections in 100Gbit/s and beyond high-speed interfaces and backplanes. Mellanox expects the acquisition of IPtronics to enhance its competitiveness and its position as a leading provider of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for servers and storage systems. The IPtronics acquisition is synergistic with Mellanox's acquisition of Kotura because Mellanox 100Gbit/s silicon photonics interconnect solutions will incorporate the high-speed opto-electronic technology from Kotura and the modulator drivers and TIAs from IPtronics. [14]

In 2013 Mellanox acquired certain assets of XLoom Communications Ltd., an industry innovator in the domain of opto-electric chip-scale packaging, relating to XLoom's key technologies, as well as hired XLoom's senior technology personnel.

In February 2011, Mellanox acquired Voltaire Ltd., a leading provider of scale-out data center fabrics. The performance requirements for faster, better, and more cost-efficient computing and storage platforms in the virtualized data center and cloud markets are driving the need for superior connectivity solutions. Mellanox's acquisition of Voltaire addresses this need by strengthening Mellanox's market leadership position as the premier provider of end-to-end connectivity systems. The acquisition combined the two company's highly complementary products, markets and customers, as well as enhanced company scale, system product knowledge and software capabilities. The transaction also expands the company's software and product offerings to allow it to serve a wider range of data center markets, including High-Performance Computing, financial services, database, Web 2.0, Internet and the Cloud.[15]

Manufacturing

Mellanox is a fabless semiconductor company.[16] The current generation of its chips are produced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.[17]

Products and Market

In 2010, a press release from Oracle described Mellanox as "the premier switched fabric provider for enterprise data centers and high performance computing". According to the same press release, Mellanox's InfiniBand technology is faster, more scalable and provides higher throughput than alternative communications technologies.[18] Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, described Mellanox’s main technology, InfiniBand, as "by far the fastest and most efficient switch fabric for running enterprise data centers."[7]

High-performance computing

Mellanox Technologies' InfiniBand products for computer clusters have been deployed in many of the TOP500 list of high-performance computers.[20] Mellanox interconnect solutions provide low-latency, high-bandwidth, high message rate, transport offload for extremely low CPU overhead, remote direct memory access (RDMA) and advanced communications offloads. They are used in large-scale simulations, replacing proprietary or low-performance solutions. Mellanox's scalable HPC interconnect solutions are considered precursors to exascale computing through scalability, efficiency and performance. Mellanox scalable HPC solutions are certified for a large variety of market segments, clustering topologies and environments (Linux, Windows). Mellanox is an active member of the HPC Advisory Council and is contributing to high-performance computing outreach and education around the world.

Storage

Mellanox Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) and Storage Acceleration (VSA) storage products improve storage infrastructure performance with lower costs and complexity compared to traditional storage networks. This results in better server utilization, increased application performance, reduced back up times, increased data center simplicity and consolidation, lower power consumption and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Customers

As of 2011 Mellanox derived more than a quarter of its revenues from two large customers, Hewlett-Packard and IBM.[21] Intel Corporation accounts for over 2% of revenues.[22] As of June 2011, Oracle owns 10% of Mellanox and is also a major customer.[23] Other customers include Chevron, Viacom, JPMorgan, Comcast and Airbus.[24]

Hiring practices

Mellanox is one of a few Israeli high-tech firms that have outsourced some of its engineering to the adjacent West Bank. Rather than setting up offshore engineering centers in traditional places such as the Far East or Eastern Europe, Mellanox instead hired five Palestinian engineers from Ramallah through a Palestinian outsourcing firm.[25] Waldman supports boosting political stability in the region, and has stated Mellanox will move forward with plans to build a research and development center in Ramallah even though it is more expensive than outsourcing to Eastern Europe.[26]

Awards

See also

References

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  2. ↑ "Mellanox Achieves Record Quarterly and Annual Revenue". Mellanox Technologies. 2016. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  3. 1 2 "Corporate Overview" (PDF). Mellanox Technologies. 2015. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  4. 1 2 Amodio, Michelle (October 6, 2011). "On the Road with Mellanox Technologies". TMCnet. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  5. ↑ Morgan, Timothy Prickett (November 29, 2010). "Mellanox gobbles up Voltaire for $218m". The Register. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  6. ↑ "Marvell to acquire LAN-chip supplier Galileo for $2.7 billion in stock". eetimes. 2000-10-17. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
  7. 1 2 Ackerman, Gwen (January 5, 2011). "Mellanox CEO Sees Sales Rising 10-Fold With Voltaire". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  8. 1 2 Tsipori, Tali (September 25, 2011). "Oracle acquires $11m more Mellanox shares". Globes. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  9. ↑ Kovar, Joseph F. (February 11, 2002). "VC Money Continues To Drain Into InfiniBand: Mellanox Secures $56M". CRN. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  10. 1 2 Walko, John (February 8, 2007). "Mellanox raises $102 million with IPO on Nasdaq". EE Times. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  11. ↑ Bagh, Carl (October 29, 2010). "Oracle buys 10 pct stake in Mellanox, will Dell, HP, IBM follow suit?". International Business Times. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  12. ↑ "Mellanox Technologies Ltd. Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Integrity Project". NASDAQ. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. Completes Acquisition of Kotura, Inc.". NASDAQ. Retrieved Aug 15, 2013.
  14. ↑ "Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. Completes Acquisition of IPtronics A/S". NASDAQ. Retrieved Jul 1, 2013.
  15. ↑ "Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. Completes Acquisition of Voltaire, Ltd.". NASDAQ. Retrieved Feb 7, 2011.
  16. ↑ "Web-chip fabless Mellanox poised to raise $50m at company value of $250m". TheMarker. October 30, 2001. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  17. 1 2 3 Morgan, Timothy Prickett (April 26, 2011). "Mellanox uncloaks SwitchX network switch-hitter". The Register. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  18. ↑ "Oracle Corporation Makes Strategic Investment In Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.". Oracle. October 27, 2010. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  19. ↑ Sur, Sayantan; Koop, Matthew J.; Lei; Panda, Dhabaleswar K. (2007). "Performance Analysis and Evaluation of Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand Architecture with Multi-Core Platforms". hoti (15th Annual IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects (HOTI 2007)): 125–134. CiteSeerX: 10.1.1.81.4890.
  20. ↑ "Mellanox Accelerates Half of the World’s Petaflop Systems; Delivers Scalable Networking for Next Generation Supercomputers". Bloomberg. June 27, 2011.
  21. ↑ Harif, Tal Barak (August 30, 2011). "Mellanox Buffered by Orders as Economy Flags: Israel Overnight". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  22. ↑ "Mellanox Falls on Downgrade". Bloomberg. September 10, 2012. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  23. ↑ "Is Mellanox Oracle’s Networking B*tch?". SiliconAngle. June 20, 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  24. ↑ "Corporate and Financial Update" (PDF). Mellanox Technologies. June 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  25. ↑ Heruti-Sover, Tali (November 7, 2010). "High-tech company aims to be first Israeli firm to hire Palestinian engineers". Haaretz. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  26. ↑ Mitnick, Joshua (April 22, 2011). "Tech diplomacy: Israeli CEO hires Palestinian programmers". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  27. ↑ "Mellanox Technologies Ranked Number 364 Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2012 Technology Fast 500™". Mellanox. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
  28. ↑ "Mellanox Wins Five HPCwire 2012 Readers' and Editors’ Choice Awards". Mellanox. Retrieved Nov 13, 2012.

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