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Spectrum-3 SN4000 Open Ethernet Switches

Cloud, Storage and AI interconnect with visibility at scale

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Optimize Utilization and Efficiency with Cost-effective Open Ethernet

Industry-leading cloud and modern scale-out distributed data centers looking for ground-breaking performance need to look no further than the NVIDIA^® Mellanox^® Spectrum^®-3 SN4000. With a whopping 25.6Tbps of bidirectional switching capacity, advanced network virtualization capabilities and NVIDIA Mellanox FlexFlow^™ packet processing, the SN4000 platforms are ideal for building large layer-2 and layer-3 virtualized or storage networking fabrics.

Highlights

Max Port Speed

400 Gb/s

Max Flow Counters

512K Entries

Max ACLS

512K Entries

Scale Scale Nat

100K+ Entries

Max IPV4 Routes

1M Entries

Spectrum Networking Advantages

Visibility

Reduced Mean Time to Recovery/Innocence. Detailed and contextual telemetry with What Just Happened (WJH). Instant answers to When, What, Who, Where and Why questions as soon as an issue as it happens.

Performance

Fully Shared Packet buffer provides fair, predictable and high-performance data path that is essential for scale out software defined storage and modern multi-tenant cloud deployments.

Scale

Deliver best-in-class scalability for overlay networks and software defined data centers with support for 10X more tunnels and tunnel end-points over VXLAN.

Key Features

Advanced Network Virtualization with support for high performance single pass VXLAN routing and IPv6/MPLS segment routing
Programmable Pipeline with the ability to programmatically parse, process and edit packets
Deep Packet Inspection - 512B Deep
Cloud Scale NAT – 100K+ flows

In-band Network Telemetry (INT) ready hardware
512K on-chip flow counters
Rich data center features at unprecedented scale with FlexFlow^™ packet processing
Consistent performance and ultra low latency
Fair bandwidth sharing with fully shared packet buffer

Benefits

Consistent and low cut-through latency
Programmable Pipeline with the ability to programmatically parse, process and edit packets
Deep Packet Inspection - 512B Deep
Cloud Scale NAT – 100K+ flows

Supported Operating Systems

SwitchDev DENT
NVIDIA Mellanox ONYX
NVIDA Cumulus Linux
Microsoft Sonic

SN4000 Comparison Table

	Connectors	400 GbE Ports	200 GbE Ports	100 GbE Ports	50 GbE Ports	40 GbE Ports	25/10/1GbE Ports	Height	Max Throughput	Total Packets per Second
SN4600*	64 QSFP56 200GbE		64	128**	128**	64	128**	2U	25.6Tb/s	8.4Bpps
SN4600C	64 QSFP28 100GbE			64	128**	64	128**	2U	12.8Tb/s	8.4Bpps
SN4700	32 QSFPDD 400GbE	32	64**	128**	128**	64**	128**	1U	25.6Tb/s	8.4Bpps
SN4800*	32 QSFPDD 400GbE 64 QSFP56 200GbE 128 QSFP28 100GbE	32	64	128	128**	64	128	4U	25.6Tb/s	8.4Bpps