LINE Corporation Collaborates with Mellanox and Cumulus Networks to Power Advanced Messaging Platform

Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, and Cumulus Networks, the leading provider bringing web-scale networking to enterprise cloud, today announced LINE Corporation has selected Mellanox Open Ethernet Switches running Cumulus Linux open network operating system to power the network behind its popular messaging applications.

LINE Corporation provides the leading messaging platform in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia and other countries across the world (165 million monthly active users for the top four countries). LINE has selected Mellanox and Cumulus Networks to scale and support growth in the company’s customer base and a broadening portfolio of services, while lowering data center operational costs.

LINE is deploying Mellanox 100GbE Open Ethernet SN2000 Spectrum™ top-of-rack (leaf) and aggregation (spine) switch platforms with the Cumulus Linux network operating system, and Mellanox 10/100GbE cables and transceivers to connect LINE’s tens of thousands of servers for Web 2.0 messaging and business applications.

“As a world leader in free messaging, voice, and video communication platform, LINE is driven to deliver state of the art services to its millions of customers across the globe,” said Marc Sultzbaugh, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Mellanox Technologies. “A best in class networking platform is critical to achieve this goal, and we are pleased to provide LINE with the infrastructure needed to provide world class communications services. This deployment of our Spectrum switches combined with Cumulus networking software, demonstrates the power of disaggregation, and how customers can achieve hyperscale data center agility and operational efficiency, without a hyperscale budget.”

“LINE is an outstanding example of a company that is using a modern, web-scale approach to build a network today that will scale to support growth for years to come,” said Josh Leslie, CEO of Cumulus Networks. “We are excited to work with our partners at Mellanox and the team at LINE to roll out the new network, which will offer a great experience for both the data center operations team and the millions of customers who use LINE’s services every day to stay in touch.”

The joint Mellanox and Cumulus Networks solution enables LINE to extend DevOps capabilities and improve operational efficiencies in several ways:

• Extensive reduction in time and resources to establish a new network
• Automation of network operations, which was challenging with its previous network
• Adoption of Routing on the Host with L3-CLOS architecture accommodates scalability, supports growing East-West traffic, and provides better availability
• The use of open routing engines such as FRRouting (FRR) for switches and servers simplifies the design and operation of routing on the host

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About Mellanox Technologies

Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand smart interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services. More information is available at: www.mellanox.com.

About Cumulus Networks

Cumulus Networks is leading the transformation of bringing web-scale networking to enterprise cloud. Its network switch, Cumulus Linux, is the only solution that allows you to affordably build and efficiently operate your network like the world’s largest data center operators, unlocking vertical network stacks. By allowing operators to use standard hardware components, Cumulus Linux offers unprecedented operational speed and agility, at the industry’s most competitive cost. Cumulus Networks has received venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Telstra Ventures, Peter Wagner and four of the original VMware founders.

About LINE Corporation

Based in Japan, LINE Corporation (NYSE:LN/TSE:3938) is dedicated to the mission of “Closing the Distance”, bringing together information, services and people. The LINE messaging app launched in June 2011 and since then has grown into a diverse, global ecosystem that includes camera apps, AI technology, and more.

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