General Features

• Separate Data and Control plane switches and control processors
• Developed in alignment with the SOSA™ Technical Standard
• Up to ten 40/100Gb and eight 1/10/25Gb Ethernet ports
  • 4x Data Plane backplane ports can be split into four 1x ports

40/100Gb Ethernet Data Plane Switch

• Supports 10/25/40/100Gb Ethernet to backplane
• Supports 1/10/25/40/50 and 100Gb Ethernet to optical interfaces
• Based on Mellanox Spectrum Switch silicon
• Industry leading, true cut through latency
• Optimized for Software Defined Networking
  • Support for OpenFlow Switch Specification Version 1.0 to 1.4 and beyond
  • Remote configurable routing table
• 6.4Tb/s switching capacity delivering wire speed performance at all packet sizes and traffic patterns
• Dynamically shared, flexible packet buffering
• Overlay and tunneling support including VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve and MPLS
• Data Center Bridging (DCB)
  • PFC, DCBX, ETS

1/10/25/40/100Gb Ethernet Control Plane Switch

• Supports 10/25/40/100Gb Ethernet to backplane
• Supports 1/10/25/40/50 and 100Gb Ethernet to optional front panel optical interfaces
• Based on Marvell Prestera-DX Switch silicon
• Layer-2 Wire-Speed Switching Engine
  • IEEE 802.1Q-compliant bridging
  • Large Forwarding Database (FDB) providing exact-match lookup for MAC entries, IGMPv3/MLDv2 IP Multicast, FCoE entries, and Router Host entries
  • Learning and forwarding based virtual ports (ePorts) and virtual bridge domains (eVLANs) for L2/VSI overlay services
  • L2 ECMP and Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) for load sharing and fast failover
  • IEEE 802.1w (RSTP) and 802.1s (MSTP)
• Virtual Overlay Network supporting NVGRE, VXLAN-GPE, GENEVE, SPB, and 802.1BR port extender
• Supports two-step and one-step Precision Time Protocol (PTP) per the IEEE 1588v1/v2 standard
• Optional cut through mode

Two XILINX® ZYNQ® UltraScale+™ MPSOC Motherboard Controller (XCZU5EG)

• Quad-core 64-bit ARM® Cortex-A53 running up to 1.2GHz
• Dual-core 32-bit Cortex-R5 real-time processor running up to 533MHz
• 16nm FinFET+ programmable logic
• 2 GB 32-bit DDR4 memory running up to 1200MHz
• Board support enabling user customization of ZYNQ+ design
• Multiple levels of hardware and software security

Optional Front Panel I/O

• Individual USB UART for Control and Data Plane processors
• Optional Individual 1/10GbE for Control and Data Plane processors
  • HPE ethernet connections can be optionally bridged in software through HPE to Switch to provide additional uplink
• Two or Three Data Plane 1/10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet optical connections
• GPIO connector supporting RS232/RS485 interface plus 2 GPIO per HPE
  • Can be used for key fill interface
• One Control Plane 1/10/25/40/100Gb
• Status LEDs

System Management

• OpenFlow compatible to support Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions
  • Supports up to OpenFlow 1.5
• System Management using Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
• Diagnostic monitoring and configuration
• Current, Voltage and Temperature Monitoring Sensors

Mechanical and Environmental

• 3U OpenVPX (VITA 65) Compliant 1.0″ spacing
• Supports new SOSA/VITA 65 switch profile SLT3-SWH-6F1U7U-14.4.14 and SLT3-SWH-6F8U-14.4.15
• Integrated Heat Sink and Board Stiffener
• Available in Industrial Temperature Grades
• Air, Air Flow Through or Conduction Cooled
• Only requires +12V and +3.3VAUX from backplane
• Developed in alignment with the SOSA™ Technical Standard
• RT3 backplane connectors for 100G support