Ethernet Switching Solutions for the Accelerated Data Center

Cloud-native, accelerated computing, and AI are the new networking frontiers, and data is the fuel that drives these workloads. AI represents a powerful growth driver that spans all industries. All workloads are becoming cloud-native; scaled out with containerized microservices that need massive bandwidth to access data and communicate across the data center. The new NVIDIA Spectrum®-4, the 5th generation of ASICs in the NVIDIA Spectrum Ethernet platform, arrives just in time to meet the needs of cloud-native, accelerated computing, and AI workloads. Spectrum accelerates workloads from core, to cloud, to edge.

Consistent Performance

• Adaptive Routing tuned for AI applications
  
• Industry-low latency
• Accelerated RoCE data path for NVMe-oF and Magnum IO

Advanced Network Virtualization

• Single-pass VXLAN bridging and routing
• Centralized VXLAN routing
• Comprehensive and programmable tunneling technology support
  
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
  

Accelerated Event-based Telemetry

• Actionable telemetry with WJH
• FabricView histograms
  
• Streaming telemetry
• In-band network telemetry
• Telemetry CPU-offloads

Cloud-tier Scale and Security

• Half a million flexible entries shared across routes, MAC, MPLS, etc.
• Up to one million on-chip IPv4 routes
• 100X more ACLs
• 10X better VXLAN VTEP and tunnel scale
• 12.8 Tb/s line rate encryption
• Class C PTP and SyncE time synchronization
• MACsec and VXLANSec encryption
• Secured switch offerings via hardware root-of-trust
  

Key Features

• 51.2 Tb/s switching and routing
• 12.8 Tb/s crypto engine traffic
• 100 Gb/s PAM4 SerDes
• NVIDIA 4N Process
• Fully shared buffer architecture
• 4X packet rate
• 40% lower power consumption
• Flexible port configurations
• > 64 x 800GbE ports
• > 128 x 400GbE ports
• > 256 x 200/100GbE ports 

• NVIDIA Spectrum-4 datasheet