Mellanox Spectrum-2 SN3000 SN3420 Ethernet Switch

The SN3000 series switches are the 3rd generation of NVIDIA® Mellanox® Spectrum® switches, purpose-built for leaf/spine/super-spine datacenter applications. Allowing maximum flexibility, SN3000 series provides port speeds spanning from 1GbE to 400GbE, and a port density that enables full rack connectivity to any server at any speed. In addition,the uplink ports allow a variety of blocking ratios to suit any application requirement.

The SN3000 series is ideal for building wire-speed and cloud-scale layer-2 and layer-3 networks. The SN3000 platforms deliver high performance, consistent low latency along with support for advanced software defined networking features, making it the ideal choice for web scale IT, cloud, hyperconverged storage and data analytics applications.

NETWORK DISAGGREGATION: OPEN ETHERNET

Open Ethernet breaks the paradigm of traditional switch systems, eliminating vendor lock-in. Instead of forcing network operators to use the specific software that is provided by the switch vendor, Open Ethernet offers the flexibility to use a choice of operating systems on top of Ethernet switches, thereby re-gaining control of the network, and optimizing utilization, efficiency and overall return on investment.

Encouraging an ecosystem of open source, standard network solution, Open Ethernet adopts the same principles as standard open solutions for servers and storage, and applies them to the world of networking infrastructure. These solutions can then be easily deployed into the modern data center across network equipment that eases management and ensures full interoperability.

With a range of system form factors, and a rich software ecosystem, SN3000 series allows you to pick and choose the right components for your data center.

Visibility

• NVIDIA Mellanox What Just Happened® (WJH) telemetry dramatically reduces mean time to issue resolution by providing answers to: When, What, Who, Where and Why
• Hardware-accelerated histograms track and summarize queue depths at submicrosecond granularity
• Inband Network Telemetry (INT)-ready hardware
• Streaming Telemetry
• 512K on-chip flow counters

• Fully shared packet buffer provides a fair, predictable and high bandwidth data path
• Consistent and low cut-through latency
• Robust RoCE transport to power NVMe over fabric and Machine Learning applications that leverage NVIDIA Mellanox GPUDirect
• Best-in-class VXLAN scale-10X more tunnels and tunnel endpoints than others
• 512K shared forwarding entries flexibly shared across ACL, LPM routes, host routes, MAC, ECMP and tunnel applications

• Comprehensive Layer-2, Layer-3 and RoCE
• Advanced network virtualization with high performance single pass VXLAN routing and IPv6 segment routing
• Cloud Scale NAT – 100K+ sessions
• Programmable pipeline that can programmatically parse, process and edit packets
• Deep Packet Inspection – 512B deep