Mellanox Spectrum-3 SN4700 - Switch - L3 - managed - 32 x 400 Gigabit QSFP-DD - front to back airflow - rack-mountable
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Performance without compromise
Packet buffer architecture has a major impact on overall switch performance. The Mellanox Spectrum-3 packet buffer is fully shared across all ports, supporting cut-through line rate traffic from all ports, without compromising scale or features. With its fast packet buffer, Mellanox Spectrum-3 is able to provide a high-performance fair and bottleneck-free data path for mission-critical applications.
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Pervasive visibility for simplified operations
Mellanox Spectrum-3 provides deep and contextual network visibility, which enables network operators to proactively manage issues and reduce mean time to recovery/innocence. Mellanox Spectrum's What Just Happened (WJH) feature leverages the underlying silicon and software capability to provide granular and event-triggered information about infrastructure issues.
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Features without compromise
For modern data center infrastructure to be software defined and agile, both its compute and network building blocks need to be agile. Mellanox Spectrum-3 features a unique feature rich and efficient packet processing pipeline that offers rich Data Center Network virtualization features without compromising on performance or scale. Mellanox Spectrum-3 is a programmable pipeline and a deep packet parser/editor that can process payloads up to the first 512B. Mellanox Spectrum-3 supports single pass VXLAN routing as well as bridging. Additionally, Mellanox Spectrum-3 supports advanced virtualization features such as IPv6 segment routing, and Network Address Translation (NAT).
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Scale without compromise
The number of endpoints in the data center is increasing exponentially. With the current shift from virtual machine-based architectures to container-based architectures, the high-scale forwarding tables required by modern data centers and mega-clouds increase by up to an order of magnitude or more. To answer these needs for scalability and flexibility, Mellanox Spectrum-3 uses intelligent algorithms and efficient resource sharing, and supports unprecedented forwarding table, counters and policy scale.
Mellanox SN4700 spine/super-spine offers 32 ports of 400GbE in a compact 1U form factor. It enables connectivity to endpoints at varying speeds and carries a throughput of 25.6Tb/s, with a landmark 8.4Bpps processing capacity. As an ideal spine solution, the SN4700 allows maximum flexibility, with port speeds spanning from 1GbE to 400GbE per port.
- Advanced network virtualization with high-performance single-pass VXLAN routing and IPv6 segment routing
- Comprehensive Layer-2, Layer-3 and RoCE
- Programmable pipeline with the ability to programmatically parse, process and edit packets
- Fully shared packet buffer provides fair, predictable and high-performance data path
- Robust RoCE transport to power NVMe over fabric and machine learning applications that leverage GPUDirect
- Consistent and low cut-through latency
- Intelligent hardware-accelerated data transport and load balancing such as adaptive routing, ECN and PFC
- Advanced VXLAN scale with more tunnels and tunnel endpoints than other solutions
- 512K shared forwarding entries that can be flexibly shared across ACL, LPM routes, host routes, MAC, ECMP and tunnel applications
- Detailed and contextual telemetry with What Just Happened (WJH)
- Hardware-accelerated histograms track and summarize queue depths at sub-microsecond granularity, avoiding false-alerts common to simple watermarks/thresholds
- Inband Network Telemetry (INT)-ready hardware
