The NVIDIA Spectrum Ethernet Platform
Explore innovative, efficient Ethernet solutions for accelerated AI.
Introduction
Complete Ethernet Solutions, From Host to Switch
Experience industry-leading Ethernet performance, availability, and ease of use across a wide range of applications—including cloud computing, data storage, AI, and more. NVIDIA Spectrum™ Ethernet is a standards-based, end-to-end platform that includes Spectrum switches, NVIDIA® ConnectX® SuperNIC™s, NVIDIA BlueField® DPUs, LinkX® cables, and networking software.
The NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet platform is purpose-built to drive generative AI at unprecedented scale—boosting network performance by 1.6x and sustaining breakthrough 95% efficiency across deployments exceeding 100,000 GPUs.
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Products
What’s Inside the Spectrum Ethernet Platform
Spectrum Ethernet Switch Systems
The NVIDIA Spectrum Ethernet switch family includes a switch and software portfolio spanning 1GbE to 800GbE. NVIDIA Spectrum Ethernet switches are ideal for building AI fabrics connecting NVIDIA AI factories, supporting both traditional pluggable optics as well as co-packaged silicon photonics-based switches. Combining Spectrum switches with the NVIDIA Cumulus® Linux network operating system (NOS), NVIDIA Pure SONiC NOS, NVIDIA NetQ™ validation toolset, and NVIDIA DSX Air simulation platform delivers the performance and features that every data center needs.
BlueField DPUs
The NVIDIA BlueField DPU ignites unprecedented innovation for modern data centers, delivering a broad range of advanced networking, storage, and security services for complex compute and AI workloads, virtual machines (VMs), containers, and bare-metal servers in enterprise and cloud. By combining the industry-leading NVIDIA ConnectX network adapter with an array of Arm® cores, BlueField offers purpose-built hardware acceleration engines with full programmability through NVIDIA DOCA™.
Ethernet SuperNICs
NVIDIA Ethernet SuperNICs are a novel class of network accelerators based on the BlueField-3 networking platform, purpose-built for supercharging hyperscale AI workloads. Designed for network-intensive, massively parallel computing, the ConnectX and BlueField SuperNICs provide up to 1.6 Tb/s RoCE network connectivity between GPU servers, optimizing peak AI workload efficiency. Ushering in a new era of AI cloud computing, the NVIDIA SuperNICs enable high-performance, multi-tenant data center environments while ensuring deterministic and isolated performance between tenant jobs.
ConnectX NICs
The industry-leading NVIDIA ConnectX family of intelligent network adapters offers the broadest and most advanced hardware acceleration engines. Running any workload at any scale, ConnectX enables the highest ROI and lowest TCO for cloud data centers, enterprise environments, and SDN and network functions virtualization (NFV) for telecommunications companies.
Networking Software
NVIDIA networking delivers cloud-scale efficiency and simplified, unified operations via an API-first, automation-centric approach. From low-level SDKs and libraries (DOCA) to switch network operating systems (Cumulus Linux, SONiC), to powerful DOCA services, fabric-wide visibility (NetQ) and simulation (DSX Air) toolsets, NVIDIA’s offerings deliver the features needed for AI factories.
LinkX Ethernet Cables and Transceivers
NVIDIA LinkX cables and transceivers are designed to maximize the performance of high-performance computing networks, delivering high bandwidth, low latency, and highly reliable connections between Ethernet elements.
Capabilities
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Partners
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