NVIDIA Networking Software

Accelerate and optimize networking performance.

Overview

A Comprehensive Software Portfolio for Networking Platforms

NVIDIA networking software offers a comprehensive portfolio that optimizes end-to-end networking platforms by maximizing performance and streamlining operations for agentic AI. It accelerates and offloads networking workloads while enhancing end-to-end visibility, enabling faster time to first token and stronger return on investment.

NVIDIA DSX Air Boosts Time to Token With Accelerated Simulation for AI Factories

AI factory simulation designed for the entire ecosystem to validate offerings alongside NVIDIA infrastructure — together, in one environment, at scale.

Simplifying AI Factory Adoption at Scale with the NVIDIA DSX Air

Design, test, and optimize infrastructure before hardware arrives while also streamline ongoing operations like testing, validation, provisioning, automation and policy management.

Products

Key Networking Software Offerings

A comprehensive portfolio ensures efficient and continuous operations for gigascale AI factories.

NVIDIA DOCA Software Framework

The NVIDIA DOCA™ software framework unlocks the NVIDIA® BlueField® platform. It enables software-defined, cloud-native services that offload, accelerate, and isolate data center infrastructure workloads with zero-trust security. Running natively on BlueField, DOCA microservices are prebuilt, containerized networking, cybersecurity, data acceleration, and orchestration services, purpose-built to power AI factories and modern cloud platforms.

NVIDIA DSX Air

With DSX Air, organizations can build full-stack simulations of their data center infrastructure. By providing a cloud-hosted virtual environment, DSX Air enables day-zero operations before a single piece of hardware is unboxed. This includes design, testing, and validation of network provisioning, automation, security policies, and more.

NVIDIA NetQ

NVIDIA NetQ™ is a highly scalable network operations toolset that provides visibility, troubleshooting, correlation, and validation of NVIDIA NVLink™ Switches and NVIDIA Cumulus® fabrics in real time. NetQ utilizes telemetry and delivers actionable insights about the health of a data center network, ensuring the AI network fabric is operating smoothly.

NVIDIA Unified Fabric Manager (UFM)

The NVIDIA UFM® platform revolutionizes data center networking management by combining enhanced, real-time network telemetry with AI-powered cyber intelligence and analytics to support scale-out, InfiniBand-connected data centers.

NVIDIA Cumulus Linux

NVIDIA Cumulus Linux architecture is the industry's most innovative, open-network operating system. It was developed under the guiding principles of easy implementation and management, customization, and scalability.

Pure SONiC

NVIDIA offers pure SONiC, a community-developed, open source, Linux-based network operating system that's been hardened in the data centers of some of the largest cloud service providers.

Release Versions

Software and Firmware for NVIDIA Networking Platforms

InfiniBand Software and Drivers

NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand drivers, protocol software, and tools are supported by major OS vendors and distributions inboxes and/or by NVIDIA where noted. NVIDIA software also supports all major processor architectures.

Ethernet Software and Drivers

NVIDIA Ethernet drivers, protocol software, and tools are supported by major OS vendors and distributions inboxes and/or by NVIDIA where noted. NVIDIA software also supports all major processor architectures.

Firmware Downloads

NVIDIA firmware ensures optimized performance and secure operations for NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand and Spectrum™ Ethernet switches, ConnectX® SuperNICs, and BlueField DPUs. NVIDIA provides tools to detect and install the appropriate firmware for any device.

Long-Term Support

Long-term support (LTS) maintains a product for an extended period of time, typically three years, to help increase the product's stability. LTS releases include updates that address bug fixes and security patches.

Spectrum-X Ethernet Validated Configuration

The NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet platform is the fabric for AI factories built on Ethernet. The catalog of products and their respective versions have been rigorously tested together and endorsed by NVIDIA, forming the validated configuration.

NVIDIA Quantum-X800 Validated Configuration

The NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand platform is purpose-built for trillion-parameter AI. The catalog of products and their respective versions have been rigorously tested together and endorsed by NVIDIA, forming the validated configuration.

NVIDIA Quantum-2 Validated Configuration

The NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand platform is designed for AI and scientific computing data centers. The catalog of products and their respective versions have been rigorously tested together and endorsed by NVIDIA, forming the validated configuration.

Software Technical Documentation

Documentation includes user manuals for Ethernet and InfiniBand switch and host hardware, network appliances, drivers, firmware, and software such as acceleration libraries, switch operating systems, management, simulation and visibility frameworks, and tools.

Next Steps

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Get a Free Trial of NVIDIA Networking Software

Simulate a fully automated network topology using NVIDIA DSX Air.

Discover Networking for the Era of AI

The network is ultimately responsible for AI performance, acting as the backbone of the data center to harness the power of generative AI.

Learn About the Spectrum-X Ethernet Platform

The Spectrum-X Ethernet platform is designed specifically to improve the performance and efficiency of Ethernet-based AI infrastructure.