General Features

• Separate Data and Control plane switches and control processors
• Developed in alignment with the SOSA™ Technical Standard
• Up to 26 40/100Gb Ethernet ports

40/100Gb Ethernet Data Plane Switch

• Supports 10/40/100 Gb 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 1/10/25Gb Ethernet to backplane
• Supports 1/10/25/40/100Gb Ethernet to backplane and 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

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 RJ45 and USB UART for Control and Data Plane processors
• Three Data Plane 1/10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet optical connections
• One Control Plane 1/10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet optical connection
• Status LEDs

Optional VITA66.5 Optical I/O

• Six Data Plane 1/10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet optical connections
• One Control Plane 1/10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet optical connection

System Management

• System Management using Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
• Diagnostic monitoring and configuration
• Current, Voltage and Temperature Monitoring Sensors
• Hot Swappable (exclusive to WILDSTAR OpenVPX EcoSystem)

Mechanical and Environmental

• 6U OpenVPX (VITA 65) Compliant 1.0″ spacing
• Supports new SOSA/VITA 65 switch profile SLT6-SWH-14F16U1U15U1J-10.8.1
• Optional VITA 66 support
• Integrated Heat Sink and Board Stiffener
• Available in Industrial Temperature Grades
• Air, Conduction or Liquid Cooled
• Hot Swappable with air cooled variants
• Only requires +12V and +3.3VAUX from backplane
• RT3 backplane connectors for 100G support