How to start developing custom apps on Broadcom Trident-based switches?
Broadcom is the biggest supplier of Network Switching Silicon in the world, and it has a plethora of different chipsets available to customers. A networking equipment developer spends the largest amount of product development time making the SW work. Broadcom provides a Switch Development Kit (SDK) to enable quick bolting of SW stacks onto network […]
Tomahawks versus Tridents
Which Broadcom ASIC family is better? Broadcom has its StrataXGS line for switching with Tomahawk and Trident families. What is the difference between them, and which one should you prefer? To understand the difference, we need to examine two things: what Broadcom says about each family and the SW support. Let’s look at descriptions first. […]
32x400G Aurora 810 with Intel Tofino 2 IFP
A new Intel Tofino 2 IFP system is ready for deliveries – Aurora 810 from Netberg. The Aurora 810 has 32x400G QSFP-DD ports for Spine, Leaf, NPB, DCI, ToR, Enterprise, Edge, and 5G deployment scenarios. With quad programmable packet processing pipelines and 20 Match Action Unit stages per pipe, Aurora 810 delivers unmatched flexibility to […]
Innovium Teralynx has arrived
We have two new products available – Aurora 715 and Aurora 615 boxes from Netberg. Both have Innovium Teralynx 5 silicon at the core and are aimed at the data center and enterprise markets. The Aurora 715 has 32x100G QSFP28 ports for Spine, Leaf, DCI, ToR, Enterprise, Edge, and 5G deployment scenarios. The Aurora 615 […]
Inside a 32x400G TH3 switch
We already talked quite a bit about white-box switch architecture and how networking software works. There were pieces about basics, ICOS, OpenSwitch. All squares, arrows, names, and other theoretical cliches, completely unbound from the material base. This one will be a more physical piece, looking inside one of the most advanced products on the market […]
Whitebox Switches: Programmable VS Fixed ASICs
White Box Switches: The Basics, Part 1 White Box Switches: Part Two, ICOS White Box Switches: Part Three, OPS For quite some time we have a new buzz word on the market – programmable Ethernet silicon that makes your network so great that it cannot be ignored. Usually, it’s setoff between so-called fixed-function ASICs and […]
White Box Switches: Part Three, OpenSwitch
White Box Switches: The Basics, Part 1 White Box Switches: Part Two, ICOS White Box Switches: Part Four, Programmable VS Fixed ASICs A bit about OpenSwitch (OPS) OPS And OPX, or a Bit of History At first, OpenSwitch project and openswitch.net were governed by HP as they tried to ride the “open networking” wave. An […]
White Box Switches: Part Two, ICOS
White Box Switches: The Basics, Part 1 White Box Switches: Part Three, OPS White Box Switches: Part Four, Programmable VS Fixed ASICs What is ICOS and what is good about it? A common description It’s easy to find pieces like these: Web-scale NOS with traditional L2/L3 functions and management, with an API structure for […]
White Box Switches: The Basics, Part 1
White Box Switches: Part Two, ICOS White Box Switches: Part Three, OPS White Box Switches: Part Four, Programmable VS Fixed ASICs What Is a White Box Switch? After several years since their introduction to the market, there is still confusion about open and disaggregated networking. We are receiving a lot of requests from people who […]
New Switches with Nephos Taurus ASIC
Netberg Aurora 740 with 64x 100G QSFP28 ports and Netberg Aurora 705 with 32x 100G QSFP28 ports are available from now on. Netberg Aurora 740 is our first product with 64x 100G QSFP28 ports; it can double your network size using the same quantity of Spine switches. It’s price point in unbelievably low, just US$12K! […]