The Mellanox SX1018HP Ethernet Switch delivers the highest-performing Ethernet fabric solution in a blade form factor by delivering up to 1.36Tb/s of non-blocking throughput to High-Performance Computing, High Frequency Trading and Enterprise Data Centers, with ultra low-latency. Utilizing the latest Mellanox SwitchX ASIC technology,the SX1036 is ideally suited as an access switch providing 10Gb/40Gb connectivity to as many as 16 blade servers and eighteen 40Gb uplinks to the next level of aggregation switching. The SX1036 switch has a rich set of networking and application performance features that excel in any data center, making this switch the perfect solution for your network. Optimized design provides high-density, low latency, energy-saving Layer 2 non-blocking switching. - Highest Density - Up to 16 40Gb Downlinks and 18 40Gb uplinks in a blade form factor - Lowest Latency 230nsec for 40GigE; 250nsec for 10GigE - Lowest Power - Less than 2.4 watts/port - Optimized fabric - Supports RDMA over Converged Enhanced Ethernet - Non Blocking - greater than 1:1 ratio means zero oversubscription