NVIDIA Corporation acquired Cumulus Networks, a transaction completed in June 2020.
Cumulus Networks operates in Data center / networking software, is based in United States. Cumulus Networks built open networking software, including the Cumulus Linux operating system for network switches plus analytics and management tooling, supporting more than 2,000 customers across roughly 130 hardware platforms. NVIDIA acquired it and placed it inside the networking business unit created by the Mellanox deal, pairing open network software with NVIDIA's switching hardware.
NVIDIA wanted to combine open, software-defined networking with its Mellanox-derived hardware so datacenters could flexibly orchestrate GPUs and DPUs for AI, cloud and high-performance computing workloads.
Mature switch operating system and a 2,000+ customer base to complement Mellanox switching silicon. Software-defined networking stack layered onto NVIDIA/Mellanox hardware for AI datacenters. Merged into NVIDIA's Networking business unit alongside Mellanox.
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.