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Ethernet Switches
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  • "It's an open-source solution."
  • "The pricing is very competitive. The licensing costs are fine."
  • "The price of Mellanox Switches is reasonable compared to other solutions. The price and quality ratio was very good. There is a one-time license purchase that is needed."
  • "There is a license to use the switch ports of Mellanox Switches."

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    What do you like most about Mellanox Switches?
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of Mellanox Switches are the powerful hardware and the software is open. They're using Linux operating system. You can do and install many things, and it performs well.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Mellanox Switches?
    Top Answer:There is a license to use the switch ports of Mellanox Switches.
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    What needs improvement with Mellanox Switches?
    Top Answer:Mellanox Switches were easier before Nvidia bought Mellanox and then their new version of the operating system changed. They started with Ennui, and now they only use Linux. If they returned to their… more »
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    17th
    out of 34 in Ethernet Switches
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    3,814
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    8.5
    29th
    out of 34 in Ethernet Switches
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    190
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    Mellanox SN2700
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    Overview

    The Mellanox Open Ethernet switch family delivers the highest performance and port density with a complete chassis and fabric management solution enabling converged data centers to operate at any scale while reducing operational costs and infrastructure complexity. This family includes a broad portfolio of Top-of-Rack (TOR) switches that range from 12 to 128 ports, with Ethernet data rates of 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE and 100GbE per port. These switches allow the building of cost-effective and scalable switch fabrics, from a few nodes to tens-of-thousands of nodes.

    NoviFlow develops high performance Ethernet switches compliant with the latest OpenFlow protocol and designed to address the two key needs of initial SDN deployments: the flow table capacity to handle large numbers of users and the network throughput to enable solutions that can scale. NoviFlow offers the most complete OpenFlow 1.3/1.4 implementation for SDN forwarding planes that deliver up to 240 Gbps of throughput and support up to 1 million flow entries.

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    CNPC, Korea Consumer Agency, Nutanix, Roxo Systems, StorPool, Atlantic.Net, INFN, StarWind, NYSE Technologies, Creative Consultants, ENKI
    Telstra, Plug and Play, Venture Beat, EZ Chip, Right Startups, ONF
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    Computer Software Company24%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Government8%
    Financial Services Firm7%
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    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    Mellanox Switches is ranked 17th in Ethernet Switches with 5 reviews while NoviFlow NoviSwitch is ranked 29th in Ethernet Switches. Mellanox Switches is rated 7.6, while NoviFlow NoviSwitch is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Mellanox Switches writes "Powerful hardware, reliable performance, and advantageous open-source OS". On the other hand, Mellanox Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Aruba Switches, Broadcom StrataXGS and HPE Ethernet Switches, whereas NoviFlow NoviSwitch is most compared with .

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