Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Solarflare Rolls Out Support For New Fabric Protocol

Irvine-based networking equipment maker Solarflare said today that it has demonstrated a new Ethernet fabric protocol, NVMe over fabric, along with Samsung Semiconductor and Supermicro. According to Solarflare, its support of NVme over TCP on its XtremeScale network interface cards (NICs) will be commercially available on September 30th. The new protocol is aimed at data center bridging and other low latency applications, allowing Ethernet to be used for fabric applications, rather than special purpose low latency networking interfaces.