Spectrum-3 SN4000 Open Ethernet Switches

Cloud, Storage and AI interconnect with visibility at scale

Optimize Utilization and Efficiency with Cost-effective Open Ethernet

Industry-leading cloud and modern scale-out distributed data centers looking for ground-breaking performance need to look no further than the NVIDIA® Mellanox® Spectrum®-3 SN4000. With a whopping 25.6Tbps of bidirectional switching capacity, advanced network virtualization capabilities and NVIDIA Mellanox FlexFlow packet processing, the SN4000 platforms are ideal for building large layer-2 and layer-3 virtualized or storage networking fabrics.

 

Highlights

Spectrum Networking Advantages

Visibility

Visibility

Reduced Mean Time to Recovery/Innocence. Detailed and contextual telemetry with What Just Happened (WJH). Instant answers to When, What, Who, Where and Why questions as soon as an issue as it happens.

Performance

Performance

Fully Shared Packet buffer provides fair, predictable and high-performance data path that is essential for scale out software defined storage and modern multi-tenant cloud deployments.

Scale

Scale

Deliver best-in-class scalability for overlay networks and software defined data centers with support for 10X more tunnels and tunnel end-points over VXLAN.

Key Features

  • Advanced Network Virtualization with support for high performance single pass VXLAN routing and IPv6/MPLS segment routing
  • Programmable Pipeline with the ability to programmatically parse, process and edit packets
  • Deep Packet Inspection - 512B Deep
  • Cloud Scale NAT – 100K+ flows
  • In-band Network Telemetry (INT) ready hardware
  • 512K on-chip flow counters
  • Rich data center features at unprecedented scale with FlexFlow packet processing
  • Consistent performance and ultra low latency
  • Fair bandwidth sharing with fully shared packet buffer

Benefits

  • Consistent and low cut-through latency
  • Programmable Pipeline with the ability to programmatically parse, process and edit packets
  • Deep Packet Inspection - 512B Deep
  • Cloud Scale NAT – 100K+ flows

Supported Operating Systems

  • SwitchDev DENT
  • NVIDIA Mellanox ONYX
  • NVIDA Cumulus Linux
  • Microsoft Sonic

SN4000 Comparison Table

  Connectors 400 GbE Ports 200 GbE Ports 100 GbE Ports 50 GbE Ports 40 GbE Ports 25/10/1GbE Ports Height Max Throughput Total Packets per Second
SN4600* 64 QSFP56
200GbE
  64 128** 128** 64 128** 2U 25.6Tb/s 8.4Bpps
SN4600C 64 QSFP28
100GbE
    64 128** 64 128** 2U 12.8Tb/s 8.4Bpps
SN4700 32 QSFPDD
400GbE
32 64** 128** 128** 64** 128** 1U 25.6Tb/s 8.4Bpps
SN4800* 32 QSFPDD
400GbE

64 QSFP56
200GbE

128 QSFP28
100GbE
32 64 128 128** 64 128 4U 25.6Tb/s 8.4Bpps

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