Spectrum 2
Announced July 4, 2017 -- 42 Mbyte buffer
Mellanox is presently sampling, so there are no products, yet.
There is a press release .
There is a slick brochure.
- 6.4 Tbps of Ethernet switching and IP routing
- Integrated 128 X 50GHz PAM4 SerDes
- Flexible port configurations:
- Up to 16 400GbE ports
- Up to 32 200GbE ports
- Up to 64 100GbE ports
- Up to 128 10/25/50GbE ports
- Full wire-speed performance for VXLAN bridging and routing at all packet sizes
- Sub 300ns, industry leading, true cut through latency
- Low power consumption of less than 7 watts per 200GbE port
- 42MB dynamically-shared, flexible packet buffering
- Advanced active queue management and congestion control
- Half a million forwarding entries
- Highest RoCE performance
- 10X higher policy engine scale vs. competition
- Optimized for Software Defined Networking; support for OpenFlow version 1.0 to 1.4 and beyond
- Comprehensive overlay and tunneling support including VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve and MPLS
- Advanced static and dynamic load balancing
- Extensive visibility capabilities at highest scale
- Programmable forwarding pipeline enables support of future protocols
- Extensive software development tools and standard open APIs
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