Mellanox switch | How is the Competitor and Alternative to Cisco, Juniper, Dell and Huawei Switches?

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A fabless semiconductor manufacturer, as one of the biggest competitors and alternatives of Cisco, Juniper, Dell and Huawei, Mellanox offers goods based on semiconductor integrated circuits, sometimes known as “chips.” Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. has been producing its chips at least since 2011 (TSMC). Based on internally created integrated circuits, Mellanox Technologies offers Ethernet and InfiniBand network adapters, switches, and cables for servers and storage used in cloud and business data centers.

When high data rates and low latency are necessary, like in a computer cluster, Mellanox specializes in switched fabrics for business data centers and high-performance computing. A large database management system was one example application. RDMA over Converged Ethernet and remote direct memory access (RDMA) are supported by Mellanox network adapters and switches.

Product names include:

Virtual protocol connection is supported by the ConnectX product series of multi-protocol ASICs and adapters, offering support for Ethernet and InfiniBand traffic at rates up to 200Gbit/s. A few of the improved features of the ConnectX-6 and ConnectX-6 Dx adapters are high speed (up to 200Gb/s), OVS acceleration, Multi-Host compatibility, and inline crypto acceleration.

It has been said that the ConnectX architecture is “innovative,” offers good performance, and is “extremely well suited for current multi-core systems.” A maximum of 40 ports operating at 200 Gbit/s HDR are supported by the Quantum range of InfiniBand switches. The Quantum switches feature cutting-edge HPC offloads like SHARP (collective operation acceleration) and SHIELD (self-healing) technologies and provide unmatched latency and packet forwarding performance.

Ethernet switch products from the Spectrum product family.

The series of cables and transceivers is known as LinkX. These devices come in a variety of form factors and are available for both Ethernet and InfiniBand protocols.

Price Drop of Mellanox products:

MSN2410-CB2F – Mellanox Switches

Mellanox Spectrum based 25GbE/100GbE 1U Open Ethernet switch with Onyx, 48 SFP28 ports and 8 QSFP28 ports, 2 Power Supplies (AC), x86 CPU, short depth, P2C airflow, Rail Kit

The SN2410 switch is an ONIE (Open Network Install Environment) based platform for allowing a multitude of operating systems to be mounted on it and utilizing the advantages of Open Networking and the capabilities of the Mellanox Spectrum® ASIC.

The SN2410 has three modes of operation. It can be provided preinstalled with Mellanox Onyx™ (successor to MLNX-OS Ethernet), a home-grown operating system utilizing common networking user experiences and industry standard CLI. It can come preinstalled with Cumulus® Linux, a revolutionary operating system taking the Linux user experience from servers to switches and providing a rich routing functionality for large scale applications. Finally, it can be provided with a bare ONIE image ready to be installed with the aforementioned or other ONIE-based operating systems.

MSN2410-CB2F Specification
Model MSN2410-CB2F
Quality of Service – 802.3X Flow Control
– WRED, Fast ECN & PFC
– 802.1Qbb Priority Flow Control
– 802.1Qaz ETS
– DCBX – App TLV support
– Advanced QoS- qualification, Rewrite, Policers – 802.1AB
– Shared buffer management
Management & Automation – ZTP
– Ansible, SALT Stack, Puppet
– FTP \ TFTP \ SCP
– AAA , RADIUS \ TACACS+ \ LDAP
– JSON & CLI , Enhanced Web UI
– SNMP v1,2,3
– In-band Management
– DHCP, SSHv2, Telnet
– SYSLOG
– 10/100/1000 ETH RJ45 MNG ports
– USB Console port for Management
– Dual SW image
– Events history
– ONIE
Software Defined Network (SDN)  OpenFlow 1.3:
• Hybrid
• Supported controllers: ODL, ONOS, FloodLight, RYU, et
Frequency
50-60Hz, single phase AC, 4.5A, 2.9A
Dimensions
1.72’’ (43.8mm) H x 17.24’’ (438mm) W x 17’’ (436mm) D
Supported Modules and Cables – QSFP28, SFP28 short and long range optics
– QSFP28, SFP28 DAC cable
– QSFP breakout cables 100GbE to 4x25GbE and 40GbE to 4x10GbE
DAC, optical
– QSFP breakout cables 100GbE to 2x50GbE DAC, optical
– QSFP AOC
– 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-SX/LX/ ZX modules
MSN2700-CS2F – Mellanox Switches

Mellanox Spectrum based 100GbE 1U Open Ethernet Switch with Onyx, 32 QSFP28 ports, 2 Power Supplies (AC), x86 CPU, standard depth, P2C airflow, Rail Kit

Mellanox SN2700 provides the most predictable, highest density 100GbE switching platform for the growing demands of today’s data centers. The SN2700 switch is an ONIE (Open Network Install Environment) based platform that supports a multitude of operating systems, as well as utilizing the advantages of Open Ethernet and the capabilities of the Mellanox Spectrum ASIC.

The SN2700 has three modes of operation:
– Preinstalled with Mellanox Onyx (successor to MLNX-OS Ethernet), a home-grown operating system utilizing common networking user experiences and industry standard CLI.
– Preinstalled with Cumulus Linux, a revolutionary operating system taking the Linux user experience from servers to switches and providing a rich routing functionality for large scale applications.
– Provided with a bare ONIE image ready to be installed with the aforementioned or other ONIE-based operating systems.

The SN2700 switch is an ideal spine and top-of-rack (ToR) solution, allowing maximum flexibility, with port speeds spanning from 10Gb/s to 100Gb/s per port and port density that enables full rack connectivity to any server at any speed. The uplink ports allow a variety of blocking ratios that suit any application requirement. Powered by the Spectrum ASIC and packed with 32 ports running at 100GbE, the SN2700 carries a whopping throughput of 6.4Tb/s with a landmark 4.76Bpps processing capacity in a compact 1RU form factor.

OPN MSN2700-CS2F
Power Specifications – Typical Power with passive cables (ATIS): 150W
– Input range: 100-127 VAC, 200-240VAC
– Frequency: 50-60Hz, single phase AC, 4.5A, 2.9A
Physical Characteristics Dimensions:
1.72’’ (43.8mm) H x 16.84’’ (427.83mm) W x 27’’ (686mm) D
Supported Modules and Cables* – QSFP28, SFP28 (with QSA) short and long range optics
– QSFP28 to QSFP28 DAC cable
– QSFP breakout cables 100GbE to 4x25GbE and 40GbE to 4x10GbE DAC, optical
– QSFP breakout cables 100GbE to 2x50GbE DAC, optical
– QSFP AOC
– 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-SX/ LX/ZX modules
* Systems limited to 40GbE will support modules and cables accordingly
Layer 2 Feature Set – Multi Chassis LAG (MLAG)
– IGMP V2/V3, Snooping, Querier
– VLAN 802.1Q (4K)
– Q-In-Q
– 802.1W Rapid Spanning Tree
– BPDU Filter, Root Guard
– Loop Guard, BPDU Guard
– 802.1Q Multiple STP
– PVRST+ (Rapid Per VLAN STP+)
– 802.3ad Link Aggregation (LAG) & LACP
– 32 Ports/Channel – 64 Groups Per System
– Port Isolation
– LLDP
– Store & Forward / Cut-through mode of work
– HLL
– 10/25/40/50/56/100GbE
– Jumbo Frames (9216 BYTES)
Layer 3 Feature Set 64 VRFs
– IPv4 & IPv6 Routing inc Route maps:
– BGP4, OSPFv2
– PIM-SM & PIM-SSM (inc PIM-SM over MLAG)
– BFD (BGP, OSPF, static routes)
– VRRP
– DHCPv4/v6 Relay
– Router Port, int Vlan, NULL Interface for Routing
– ECMP, 64-way
– IGMPv2/v3 Snooping Querier
MCX515A-CCAT – Mellanox Network Cards

Mellanox ConnectX-5 EN network interface card, 100GbE single-port QSFP28, PCIe3.0 x16, tall bracketConnectX-5 MCX515A-CCAT Ethernet network interface cards provide high performance and flexible solutions with one port of 100GbE connectivity, 750ns latency, up to 148 million messages per second (Mpps). For storage workloads, the 100 Gigabit Ethernet adapter card delivers a range of innovative accelerations, such as Signature Handover (T10-DIF) in hardware, an embedded PCIe Switch, and NVMe over Fabric target offloads.

MCX515A-CCAT Specification
Model MCX515A-CCAT
Physical Size: 2.71 in. x 5.6 in. (68.90mm x 142.24 mm) – low profileConnector: Single QSFP28 (copper and optical)
PCI Express Gen3: SERDES @ 8.0GT/s, 16 lanes (2.0 and 1.1 compatible)
Ethernet 100GBASE-CR4, 100GBASE-KR4, 100GBASE-SR4, 56GBASE-R4, 50G Ethernet Consortium, 40GBASE-CR4, 40GBASE-SR4, 40GBASE-LR4, 40GBASE-ER4, 25GBASE-CR/CR-S, 25GBASE-SR, 25GBASE-LR, 25G Ethernet Consortium, 10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR, 10GBASE-ER, 10GBASE-CX4, SGMII, 1000BASE-X
Data Rate
 1/10/25/40/50/100 Gb/s Ethernet
MCX623106AN-CDAT – Mellanox Network Cards

Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx EN adapter card, 100GbE, Dual-port QSFP56, PCIe 4.0 x16, No Crypto, Tall Bracket

The 100GbE dual-port QSFP56 PCIe 4.0x 16 network interface cards support 100G full speed on its two ports to provide unparallelled performance and efficiency. As the most secure and advanced cloud network interface card in the industry, ConnectX-6 Dx Mellanox Ethernet adaptor cards are ideal for mission-critical data-centre applications to ensure security, virtualisation, SDN/NFV, big data, machine learning, and storage.

MCX623106AN-CDAT Specification
Model MCX623106AN-CDAT
Ports Dual
Supported Ethernet Speeds 100/50/40/25/10/1GbE
Host Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
Controller
Mellanox Technologies MT2892 Family ConnectX-6 Dx
Technology
Ethernet
Interface Type
QSFP56
RDMA
Yes

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