SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
March 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL), a leader in infrastructure
semiconductor solutions, today announced a breakthrough Ethernet
switch solution portfolio, ranging from 2 to 12.8 Terabits per
second (Tbps), designed for edge and private data centers utilizing
composable infrastructure. The
Marvell® Prestera®
CX 8500 family is architected with a robust feature-set to meet the
distinctive data center requirements needed to support the
approaching tsunami of connected intelligence, edge computing and
5G applications.
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Connected intelligence is gaining momentum and evolving at an
astonishing rate. An ever-expanding network of connected
cars, 5G wireless base stations, smart cities, robotic factories
and tens of billions of IoT devices will commensurately generate an
enormous amount of data. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence
and machine learning is fostering the need for data and services to
be processed and stored as close to the edge of the network rather
than at mega-scale cloud data centers. Utilizing composable
infrastructure, a framework providing flexibility of compute,
storage and networking resources managed by software, the
traditional need to physically configure hardware can be
eliminated. Data centers require new technologies to support
composable infrastructure as well as to enable reduced power
consumption, low latency and smaller footprints.
The Marvell Prestera CX 8500 portfolio represents a
revolutionary approach to data center architectures with features
offering unprecedented workflow visibility, analytics and network
simplification to support QoS, traffic management and scalability.
To manage the network complexity of composable
infrastructure, Marvell's new switch solutions utilize
groundbreaking Storage Aware Flow Engine (SAFE) technology.
SAFE facilitates virtual storage orchestration by providing greater
insight into network flows with per flow visibility, advanced
telemetry and comprehensive diagnostics that identify and resolve
network congestion.
At the same time, integrating innovative Forwarding Architecture
using Slices of Terabit Ethernet Routers (FASTER) technology, the
Marvell Prestera CX 8500 family brings high radix cores and
congestion-aware load balancing. By enabling virtualization
for scalability, FASTER results in a reduction in the number of
network layers and simplifies complexity, allowing edge data center
networks to be collapsed into a single layer, ultimately lowering
power, space and latency. Most importantly, FASTER can reduce
overall network costs by more than 50%.
"Leveraging two decades of field proven deployments of Prestera
technology with more than three billion Ethernet switch ports
shipped as well as demonstrated leadership in Ethernet networking
and storage technology, Marvell is revolutionizing data center
switching," said Eric Hayes, senior
vice president and general manager of the Networking Business Unit
at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. "Specifically, our newest
Prestera CX solutions incorporate cutting-edge SAFE and FASTER
technologies at bandwidths up to 12.8 Tbps, unleashing 32 ports of
400 Gbps or 256 ports of 50 Gbps network throughput.
Marvell's innovations are enabling edge data centers to implement a
higher performance network in a smaller footprint, with
substantially lower power and cost."
"Marvell's new switch introduction strengthens the
company's excellent infrastructure semiconductor solutions and
delivers on the vision of the optimized modern data center," said
Bob Wheeler, vice president and
principal analyst for networking, The Linley Group. "This new
solution from Marvell includes meaningful industry firsts that
address the demand for composability of storage and compute
functions in edge data centers."
The Marvell Prestera CX 8500 solutions, with 25 Gbps and 50 Gbps
I/O options, provide at the system level greater than 35% lower
power consumption and 25% more total buffer memory compared to
traditional switching ICs.
KEY FEATURES
- Packet Processor:
-
- 9th generation Ethernet switch pipeline deployed in enterprise,
service provider and data center networks
- Leverages stable 16nm high volume process node enabling quick
time-to-market for customers
- Storage Aware Flow Engine (SAFE)
-
- Support for elephant flow detection and packet prioritization
using advanced proactive hardware probes that can predict
congestion before the event occurs
- Multi-lookup flow engine capable of using both TCAM and SRAM
for lookups on more than 500K
flows
- RoCEv2 awareness provides flow level diagnostics to identify
and resolve network congestion
- Forwarding Architecture using Slices of Terabit Ethernet
Routers (FASTER)
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- Up to 8K queues with 3 level
H-QoS and VoQ support for up to 1K
ports
- Congestion aware load balancing/dynamic load balancing
- Supports scaling of ports from 1 Gbps through 400 Gbps
- Telemetry
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- Dedicated flow-based hardware engines with programmability
addressing the latest telemetry packet formats and monitoring data
exporting methods (INT, iOAM, TAM, etc.)
The Marvell Prestera CX family is supported by the CPSS (Core
Prestera Software Suite) and maintains API compatibility with the
Marvell Prestera DX and EX families. In addition, Marvell Prestera
CX reference designs and white box systems are supported by a
production-qualified version of Open Compute Project's open
Networking Operating System SONiC. SONiC enables advanced
data center features that are deployed in complex environments for
intelligent data storage and machine learning. Marvell also
partners with third party NOS suppliers such as
Aricent®, enabling customers to accelerate their time to
market.
The Marvell Prestera CX 8500 portfolio is currently
sampling.
Marvell is showcasing its new Ethernet switching solutions along
with its end-to-end compute, storage and networking solutions
optimized for the modern data center at the OCP U.S. Summit 2019 in
San Jose, Calif. (booth A5)
March 14-15, 2019.
For further information on the Marvell Prestera CX 8500 suite,
please visit
https://www.marvell.com/switching/prestera-cx/98cx8500/.
About Marvell
Marvell first revolutionized the digital
storage industry by moving information at speeds never thought
possible. Today, that same breakthrough innovation remains at the
heart of the company's storage, processing, networking, security
and connectivity solutions. With leading intellectual property and
deep system-level knowledge, Marvell's semiconductor solutions
continue to transform the enterprise, cloud, automotive,
industrial, and consumer markets. To learn more,
visit: https://www.marvell.com/
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Marvell Media Relations
Kristin Hehir
Senior Manager, Public Relations
408-222-8744
kristinh@marvell.com
Hanna Kang
Senior Manager, Public Relations
408-222-3780
hhkang@marvell.com
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