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Gnodal Data Centre Switch OS Enhancements Enable 40GBE Cloud Backbone
LONDON, Jan 29, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Today at Cloud Expo Europe, Bristol-based Gnodal Ltd, an innovator
in 10/40GbE Ethernet switch fabrics, announced significant software
enhancements to its adaptive, load-balancing fabric's operating
system that provides private/hybrid cloud enterprise networks with
improved monitoring capabilities via port mirroring, and optimized
scalability and link utilization through multipath resolution.
The isotropic architecture in the Gnodal distributed, low-latency,
Layer 2 core, removes typical constraints to cloud deployment. The
Gnodal Network Operating System (GNOS) advantage becomes evident in a
fabric-based environment, whereby multiple Gnodal GS-Series switches
can be combined to create distributed core fabrics that support
thousands of nodes. The Gnodal Ethernet Switch Fabric implements
full-bisectional bandwidth capacity, while delivering the highest
performance levels. The new release of GNOS also provides mechanisms
to control a multi-switch environment as one switch with a single
management pane, significantly simplifying network operations.
Further validating the GNOS cloud-backbone capability is RedPixie --
an emerging solutions provider in next-generation desktop, data
centre infrastructure and on/off-premise cloud computing, which
features the Gnodal Ethernet Fabric for connecting compute and
storage nodes in its NimBrix platform. Leveraging Gnodal
ultra-low-latency switches for its Ethernet fabric, RedPixie delivers
a unified compute, storage and networking platform that eliminates
the need for a SAN and overcomes conventional architectural
limitations and costs.
NimBrix -- a highly disruptive, next-generation platform with an
unmatched level of performance, scalability and flexibility --
combines the power of best-in-class compute, storage and networking
technologies as requisite building blocks to deliver a world-class
solution that transcends the performance of similar competitor
offerings. For cloud service providers, NimBrix enables VDI 3.0, a
turnkey experience delivering next-generation stateless desktops. The
NimBrix architecture is scalable, supporting 1000s of nodes; elastic,
allowing resources to be moved, removed and added on demand; can
deliver high-performance with a linearly scalable architecture; and
is fault tolerant, delivering advanced failure-handling capabilities
with data mirroring, enabling virtual shelves with protection
domains.
The new GNOS enhancements announced today reaffirm the transformative
approach that Gnodal delivers in cloud efficiency through optimized
services delivery and virtual infrastructure for sustained peak
throughput and high device utilization. For example, relative to a
VDI use case, application service providers utilising a very dense VM
environment to serve a high number of desktops from as few physical
servers as possible, are clearly promoting their technology to
accelerate storage read/write capability, but also require a
high-performance network to sustain optimal level I/O. While initial
functional tests were projected to run at 1 Gbps, real-world results
demanded the adoption of 10GbE ToR switches to gain maximum VM
efficiency. As state-of-the-art server and storage technology
continues to mature, the Gnodal GS-Series can easily support higher
bandwidth, multi-chassis link aggregation group (MLAG) capability or
Gnodal high-density 40GbE connections.
"Gnodal is uniquely positioned to redefine enterprise Ethernet
networks to meet the objectives of next-generation data centre and
cloud infrastructures that rely on flat and efficient, east-west,
layer 2 Ethernet transport common to virtualized applications," said
Atchison Frazer, Gnodal CMO. "The Gnodal Network Operating System
underpins a tightly integrated Ethernet fabric; while other vendors
talk about switch device functionality based on merchant silicon,
only Gnodal Ethernet Fabric -- exclusively delivered via the Gnodal
PETA-ASIC chip architecture -- delivers three key tenets of
intelligent network fabrics: low latency, congestion avoidance, and
multipath handling."
About Gnodal Network OS
The Gnodal Network Operating System, as a
whole, delivers a scalable, congestion-free, deterministic and
low-latency, data centre Ethernet fabric with single point
management. This operating system is Gnodal software based on a Linux
kernel, with Gnodal hardware drivers, and a number of protocol layers
above it. A key differentiator between GNOS and legacy switching is
that a large part of GNOS is embedded within the PETA-ASIC.
Additionally, GNOS uniquely offers distributed control, whereby each
Gnodal PETA-ASIC actively participates in the system as a whole. This
creates a system perspective to the fabric, in which the OS becomes
hierarchical. Contrasted with conventional systems, such competitors
are limited to having a functional OS that is multi-threaded, which,
by necessity, must integrate with a number of third-party
microprocessors through device drivers, causing each switch to act as
an autonomous device with no awareness of the system as a whole, and
thus not an infrastructure fabric.
For More Information
-- Visit Cloud Expo Europe stand #1113
-- GNOS data sheet: www.gnodal.com/a/pdf/GNOS_DS_012813.pdf
-- GNOS core distribution diagram slides:
www.slideshare.net/jafrazer/gnos-distributed-core-v3-rdlc
-- MLAG white paper: www.gnodal.com/a/pdf/Gnodal_MLAG_WP_111712.pdf
-- Gnodal website: www.gnodal.com
About Gnodal
The Gnodal(R) ASIC Ethernet switch architecture features
a congestion-aware performance and workload fabric that allows for
ultra-low-latency transmission. It utilizes a dynamic, fully
adaptive, load-balancing mechanism to arbitrate equitably a
pre-emptive and deterministic pathway for large data sets,
high-computational applications and massive storage demands prevalent
in Cloud, HPDC and Big Data environments. The 72-port, 40GbE,
"fabric-in-a-box" GS0072 solution extends Gnodal leadership in port
density ToR solutions, and won the best-in-class award for networking
at Interop 2012.
Gnodal high-performance network fabrics deliver industry leading
Ethernet transport speed to reduce latency proactively. Gnodal
highest port density 1U and 2U ToR switches are ideally suited for
deployment within co-location environments and enterprise data
centers. On ingress into GS-Series switching, the initial latency is
sub-150 nanoseconds (store-and-forward) with each subsequent Gnodal
switch added to the fabric incurring only 66 nanoseconds of
additional latency (cut-through).
Gnodal PR Contact
Peter Brooks
415-425-4225
Email Contact
SOURCE: Gnodal Ltd
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