In 2007 I helped a small Israeli startup called Voltaire go public. Voltaire had built InfiniBand switches, which offered much higher performance than Ethernet switches. The company struggled for years and was acquired by Mellanox in 2011 for $218M. Mellanox was subsequently acquired by Nvidia. Today, Voltaire's DC switches are generating many billions in revenue for Nvidia and at the heart of their DC strategy. Voltaire was 15 years too early but their technology lives on.