32x400G Netberg Aurora 830 (Broadcom Trident4-X11) – SONiC ready

The Aurora 830 is a high-density 400GbE switch designed to address the performance, capacity, and service requirements of next-gen networks, high-bandwidth data centers, and 5G applications. It’s based on the StrataXGS® Trident4-X11 series and delivers fully user-programmable forwarding and instrumentation capabilities while offering minimal power consumption and latency.

32 QSFP-DD interfaces are backward compatible with QSFP28 and provide a flexible solution for any data center, enterprise, or CSP environment supporting break-out configuration to 64x200GbE or 128x 100GbE ports. Six ports support OpenZR+ 400G transceivers.

Aurora 830 has extensive features to address the rapidly increasing scale of data center network deployments and distributed computing applications. These features include flexible in-band and streaming telemetry, large-scale forwarding databases with flexible allocations to allow tailoring to the required application, and support for the latest in data center protocols.

To enable high network utilization, Aurora 830 features a wide variety of load balancing and congestion management technologies, including Dynamic Load Balancing, Dynamic Group Multipathing, Resilient Hashing, Latency-Based ECN marking, and Elephant Flow detection/re-prioritization.

The system has embedded BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) to provide server-style Ethernet switch management. In addition to monitoring the health of temperature, power status, and cooling fans, BMC aids in deploying and managing software and hardware assets.

Aurora 830 is programmed using the NPL high-level language.  For more information on NPL, please visit https://nplang.org/.

Runtime programmability allows numerous functions to be updated while the switch is in operation, with no downtime. For example, access control policy tables, size, type of telemetry metadata, packet trace, and packet drop can all be modified without disturbing packet flow. The result is dramatically reduced operational complexity, higher network flexibility, and higher network availability.

The system supports Netberg SONiC as the complete switching package, Ubuntu Linux and OpenBCM Broadcom Core Switch Software Development Kit (SDK) allow custom application development, and InfiniCore Visibility Studio for network visibility and management solutions.