Designed for Unmatched Scale and
Programmability, Spectrum®-2 Open Ethernet Switches Enable
Industry’s Most Efficient Cloud, Hyperscale, and Enterprise Data
Centers
Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier
of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for
data center servers and storage systems, today introduced
breakthrough Ethernet Cloud Fabric (ECF) technology based on
Spectrum-2, the world’s most advanced 100/200/400 Gb/s Ethernet
switches. ECF technology provides the ideal platform to quickly
build and simply deploy state of the art public and private cloud
data centers with improved efficiency and manageability. ECF
combines three critical capabilities:
- Industry-leading packet forwarding data
plane
- Agile, flexible and fully programmable
data pipeline
- Fully integrated, Open and Actionable
telemetry to provide instant insights
ECF fully incorporates Ethernet Storage Fabric (ESF) technology
that seamlessly allows the network to serve as the ideal scale-out
data plane for computing, storage, artificial intelligence, and
communications traffic. ECF technology fully embraces Open Ethernet
platforms that disaggregate hardware and software, and Spectrum-2
based switches are available with network operating systems
including Mellanox Onyx, Cumulus Linux, SONiC, and Linux
SwitchDev.
Spectrum-2 switches with ECF enables data center architects to
achieve the highest levels of performance, flexibility and advanced
visualization capabilities to improve operational efficiency.
Industry-leading Packet Forwarding Data Plane
- 8.33 Billion Packets per second –
Fastest in its class
- 42MB Monolithic and fully shared packet
buffer to provide high bandwidth and low-latency cut-through
performance
- Robust RoCE Datapath to enable hardware
accelerated data movement for Ethernet Storage Fabric and Machine
Learning applications
- Half a million flexible forwarding
entries to support large Layer-2 and Layer-3 networks
- Up to 2 Million routes with external
memory to address Internet Peering use cases
- 128-way ECMP with support for flowlet
based Adaptive Routing
- Hardware-based Network Address
Translation
- 500K+ Access Control List entries for
micro-segmentation and cloud scale whitelist policies
- 500K+ VXLAN Tunnels, 10K+ VXLAN VTEPs
to provide caveat-free Network Virtualization
Agile, flexible and fully programmable data pipeline
- Comprehensive support for VXLAN
overlays including single pass VXLAN routing and bridging
- Centralized VXLAN routing for brown
field environments
- Support for other overlay protocols
including EVPN, VXLAN-GPE, MPLS-over-GRE/UDP, NSH, NVGRE, MPLS/IPv6
based Segment routing and more
- Future-proofing with programmable
pipeline that can support new, custom and emerging protocols
- Uncompromising performance with
hardware optimized stages that accelerate traditional as well as
virtualized network functions
- Advanced modular data plane and
integrated container support enables extensibility and flexibility
to add customized and application specific capabilities
Fully Integrated, Open and Actionable Telemetry
- 10X reduction in mean time to
resolution by providing a rich set of contextual and actionable
Layer 1-4 “What Just Happened” telemetry insights
- Hardware based packet buffer tracking
and data summarization using histograms
- More than 500K flow tracking
counters
- Open and Extensible platform to
facilitate integration and customization with 3rd party and open
source visualization tools
- Support for traditional visibility
tools including sFlow, Streaming and In-band telemetry
Spectrum-2 extends the capabilities of the first generation of
Spectrum based Ethernet switches, which are deployed in thousands
of data centers around the world. Spectrum enables IT managers to
achieve leading performance and efficiency for 10GbE
infrastructures and higher, and to effectively and economically
migrate from 10 to 25, 50, and 100 Gb/s speeds. Spectrum
capabilities are highlighted in a Tolly test report which
demonstrates superior performance versus competitor products.
Spectrum-2 maintains the same API as Spectrum: Open SDK/SAI API or
Linux upstream driver (Switchdev) and supports a range of network
operating systems.
“The Spectrum-2 switch ASIC operates at speeds up to 400 Gigabit
Ethernet, but goes beyond just raw performance by delivering the
most advanced features of any switch in its class without
compromising operation ability and simplicity,” said Amir Prescher,
senior vice president of end user sales and business development at
Mellanox Technologies, “Spectrum-2 enables a new era of Ethernet
Cloud Fabrics designed to increase business continuity by
delivering the most advanced visibility capabilities to detect and
eliminate data center outages. This state-of-the-art visibility
technology is combined with fair and predictable performance
unmatched in the industry, which guarantees consistent application
level performance, which in turn drives predictable business
results for our customers. Spectrum-2 is at the heart a new family
of SN3000 switches that come in leaf, spine, and super-spine form
factors.”
“Hewlett Packard Enterprise M-series Ethernet switches allow our
customers to support more apps, more users and more locations with
higher performance and lower latency while reducing cost, space and
power,” said Marty Lans, General Manager, Storage Connectivity
& HPE Complete at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “The demand for
bandwidth is constantly increasing as companies adopt HCI and
NVMe-OF. Spectrum-2 gives them a high-performance Ethernet storage
fabric with the industry’s highest throughput and comprehensive
visibility.”
“Mellanox is a long-term trusted partner of Cumulus, and we’re
excited to partner with them once again to enable customers with
Linux-based environments to build an agile, high performance and
highly-automated infrastructure,” said Josh Leslie, CEO of Cumulus
Networks. “Spectrum-2 will be able to run a massive spine complete
with features – twice as fast as before – and will enable twice as
many breakouts. As the best, most deployed, and most strategic
software stack, Cumulus Linux and the second generation of Spectrum
will be an important piece on the chessboard in the quest for data
center dominance.”
“Data Center customers are looking to significantly increase the
Ethernet switch bandwidth in their networks while simultaneously
raising the requirements for overlay-based network agility and
fully-integrated visibility,” said Sameh Boujelbene, Senior
Director at Dell’Oro Group. “25 GbE and 100 GbE adoption continues
to accelerate outside of the large Cloud Service Providers. We
predict 25 and 100 GbE combined sales to rise 50% over the next two
years. Spectrum-2 addresses this transition.”
The Mellanox SN3000 family of Ethernet switches are built on the
Spectrum-2 switch ASIC to provide 1GbE through 400GbE Ethernet
connectivity, and enable a rich set of enhanced capabilities. These
advanced features along with increased flexibility and port density
enables a variety of switch platforms optimized for cloud,
Hyperscale, Enterprise data center, big data, artificial
intelligence, financial, storage workloads and more.
Spectrum-2’s innovative design and flexible data path allows IT
managers to fully optimize their network for business specific
workloads to maximize their data center return on investment.
Additionally, Spectrum-2 delivers unmatched power efficiency when
compared to alternative offerings, improving data center total cost
of ownership.
Availability: The Spectrum-2 based SN3000 family of
switch systems with ECF technology will be available in Q3.
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About Mellanox
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, unlocking system performance and improving data
security. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products:
adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate
application performance and maximize business results for a wide
range of markets including cloud and hyperscale, high performance
computing, artificial intelligence, enterprise data centers, cyber
security, storage, financial services and more. More information is
available at: http://www.mellanox.com
Note: Mellanox is a registered trademark of
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