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