Disaggregated data center switches offer vendor choice, flexibility, cost optimization, scalability, agility, automation, interoperability, and simplified network operations.
The use of merchant silicon in whitebox switches allows for cost savings, as these components are mass-produced and available at a lower price compared to proprietary ASICs. It also enables whitebox manufacturers to leverage the advancements and ongoing innovations in merchant silicon, staying up-to-date with the latest networking capabilities.
It’s important to note that while whitebox switches may use the same ASICs and components, their differentiation lies in the software layer, where organizations can choose from a variety of NOS options or even develop their own software to meet their specific requirements. This software flexibility and openness are key aspects that set whitebox switches apart from traditional, closed-architecture vendor solutions.
Edgecore AS5835-54X
Overview – Edgecore AS5835-54X
The Edgecore AS5835-54X whitebox switch is designed for carrier and enterprise aggregation and data center Top of Rack. The AS5835-54X is an ideal solution for traditional three-tier aggregation or core and folded-Clos architectures, serving with no oversubscription. The AS5835-54X switch is packed with features that bring high availability, comprehensive security, robust multicast control, and advance QoS to network aggregation, while maintaining simple management.
The switch also supports the most advance IPv6 management, IPv6 security, and IPv6 multicast control in accordance with the growth of IPv6 deployment. ISPs can expand their services from home to business users by providing a more reliable and resilient network (ITU-T G.8032 ERPS), L2 VPNs, and advanced OAM (Operations, Administration, and Maintenance) functions to ensure service-level agreements.
Interfaces
- 6 x 40/100G QSFP28 ports
- 48 x 1/10 SFP+ ports
Features
- Ideal as aggregation high-performance Gigabit access switch with 10 Gigabit uplinks, enterprise core switch, or Top of Rack switch
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet L2+/Lite L3 managed switch with 2.16 Tbps switching capacity. The switch delivers wire-speed switching performance on all 10 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit ports
- 6 built-in 100G QSFP28 ports provide up to 6 100Gbps high-speed and non-oversubscribed uplinks to core or spine switches, reducing bottlenecks and increasing the performance of the access network.
- The 100G QSFP28 ports provide flexibility for backward compatibility with 40G and allowing breakout to 4 x10G SFP+ ports.
- The 100G QSFP28 ports provide flexibility for breakout to 4 x 25G SFP28 ports
- Dual hot-swappable, load sharing power supplies ensures the reliability of the switch
- Hot-swappable 4+1 redundant fans ensures the reliability of the switch
- Temperature sensor for fan speed control to reduce noise and save energy
Edgecore AS7326-56X
Overview
The Edgecore DCS203 switch is a Top-of-Rack (TOR) switch for high-performance data centers. In a compact 1RU form factor, the switch provides line-rate L2 and L3 switching across the 48 x SFP28 + 8 x QSFP28 ports, and each QSFP28 port can be configured as 2 x 50 GbE, 4 x 25 GbE, 1 x 40 GbE, or 4 x 10 GbE by using DAC breakout cables. The DCS203 can be deployed as a TOR switch supporting 10/25 GbE to servers with 40/50/100 GbE uplinks. This open network switch is loaded with the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) which supports the installation of compatible Network Operating System (NOS) soſtware, including the open source options Open Network Linux plus commercial NOS offerings.
Features
- Cost-effective, open network switch for data center fabric
- Deploy as Top-of-Rack switch supporting 10 or 25 GbE to servers, with 40 GbE, 50 GbE, or 100 GbE uplinks
- 48 x SFP28 + 8 x QSFP28 switch ports, each QSFP28 supporting 1 x 100 GbE or 1 x 40 GbE, or via breakout cables, 2 x 50 GbE, 4 x 25 GbE, or 4 x 10 GbE.
- Layer 2 or Layer 3 forwarding of 2 Tbps
- Supports hot/cold aisles with port-to-power and power-to-port airflow SKUs
- All ports on front; PSUs and fans accessible from rear
- Hot-swappable, load-sharing, redundant AC or -48V DC PSUs
- 5+1 redundant, hot-swappable fan modules
- Energy efficient
- Hardware switch pre-loaded with Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) for automated loading of compatible open source and commerical NOS offerings.
- Compatible with Arrcus ArcOS
- Compatible with CapGemini SDvAS
- Compatible with CGS COS
- Compatible with IP Infusion OcNOS™
- Compatible with Open Network Linux (ONL), an open-source, OCP reference NOS
- Compatible with Pica8 Inc. PicOS™
- Compatible with Pluribus Networks Netvisor ONE Network operating system
- Compatible with SONiC open source network software
Edgecore AS7712-32X
Overview
The Edgecore DCS501 switch is a Top-of-Rack (TOR) or spine switches for high-performance data centers. In a compact 1RU form factor, the switches provide line-rate L2 and L3 switching across the 32 x QSFP28 ports, supporting up to 32 x 40/100 GbE, 64 x 50 GbE, or 128 x 10/25 GbE connections. The DCS501 can be deployed as a TOR switch supporting 10/25/50 GbE to servers with 40/50/100 GbE uplinks, or as a spine switch supporting 40/50/100 GbE spine interconnects. This open network switch is loaded with the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE), which supports the installation of compatible Network Operating System soſtware, including the open source options, plus commercial NOS offerings.
Features
- Cost-effective, open network switch for data center fabric.
- Deploy as Top-of-Rack switch supporting 10 or 25 GbE to servers, with 40 or 50 or 100 GbE uplinks.
- Deploy as spine switch supporting 40, 50, or 100 GbE ToR and spine interconnects.
- 32 x QSFP28 switch ports, each supporting 1 x 100 GbE or 1 x 40 GBE, or via breakout cables, 2 x 50 GbE or 4 x 25 GbE or 4 x 10 GbE.
- Layer 2 or Layer 3 forwarding of 6.4 Tbps (full duplex).
- Supports hot/cold aisle with port-to-power and power-to-port airflow SKUs.
- All ports on front; PSUs and fans accessible from rear.
- Hot-swappable, load-sharing, redundant AC or -48V DC or 12V DC PSUs.
- 5+1 redundant, hot-swappable fan modules.
- Energy Efficiency
- Hardware switch pre-loaded with Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) for automated loading of compatible open source and commerical NOS offerings.
- Compatible with Arrcus ArcOS
- Compatible with CapGemini SDvAS
- Compatible with CGS COS
- Compatible with IP Infusion OcNOS™
- Compatible with Ixia Vision Edge OS™
- Compatible with Netscout Packet Flow Switch
- Compatible with Pica8 Inc. PicOS™
- Compatible with Pluribus Networks Netvisor ONE Network operating system
- Compatible with SONiC open source network software.
- Compatible with Stratum
Delta AG-9032v2
Overview
The Agema Open Networking Platform AG9032 V2 is configured with 1RU high-density 32X40/100GE QSFP28 + 2X10GE SFP+ Spine/TOR. The device is pre-loaded with ONIE (Open Network Install Environment) ready to support the customers choice of modular extensible Network Operating Systems (NOS), 3-year Hardware Warranty
The AG9032 v2 is a high performance, high density next generation TOR/Spine switch with target application for Enterprise core, Metro Ethernet and Data Center networks. It has thirtytwo100GbE QSFP28 ports which provides 3.2Tbps bandwidth configurable to multi-rate 40/100GbE at desired fabric speed and fulfills ever growing bandwidth demand in modern data center. In addition to rich bandwidth, the AG9032 v2 supports programmability capability; enables future-proof new features and protocols. The AG9032 v2 also has comprehensive capability on layer 2 and layer 3 features, including STP, VLAN, QinQ, Trunk, QoS, LAG, full IPv4/IPv6 routing, RIP, OSPF, IGMP, DVMRP, PIM-DM, PIM-SM, ACL, etc. The AG9032 v2 also aims to next generation network also supports advanced features such as VxLAN, L2GRE, NVGRE, GENEVE, NSH, MPLS, TRIL PPB-TE L2/L2 in L3 Tunneling, Server Virtualization VN-Tag, VEPA, flow control PFC and ETS to meet DCB network requirements. To provide a clear path to software-defined data center, AG9032 v2 supports ONIE for zero touch installation of alternating network operating systems.
Features
PORTS
- 32x 100GbE QSFP28 ports
- 2x 10GbE SFP+ ports
- 1x RJ45 100/1000BASE-T OOB management port
- 1x RJ45 Console Port
- 1x USB port
PERFORMANCE (SUBJECT TO NOS)
- Switching Chip: Broadcom Trident 3 BCM56870
- Switching Capacity: 3.2Tbps switching bandwidth (6.4Tbps Full Duplex)
- Forwarding rate: 4762 Mpps
- Packet Buffer Memory: 32MB
- Jumbo Frame: Up to 12Kbyte
- MAC Address: Max 288K
- LPM Routes Support: without uRPF IPv4 324K; IPv4/64 168K
- L3 Hosts: IPv4 Max 168K, IPv6 Max 100K
- VLAN IDs: 4K
PROCESSOR, MEMORIES & STORAGE
- Processor:INTEL DENVERTON C3538
- SPI-Flash: 16MB
- System Memory: 16GB DDR4
- Storage: 64GB m.2 SSD
- BMC: AST2520
POWER & FAN
- 4+1 redundant Fan modules
- 2 redundant, load-sharing, hot-swappable 650W AC power supplies
- Input voltage : AC 100 ~ 240V
- Output voltage: DC 12V
- Power consumption: Max. 650W
*Compatible with 800W DC power supply
Edgecore AS7726-32X
Overview
The Edgecore DCS204 switch is a Top-of-Rack (TOR) or spine switch for high-performance data centers. In a compact 1RU form factor, the switch provides line-rate L2 and L3 switching across the 32 x QSFP28 ports, and each QSFP28 port can be configured as 2x50G, 4x25G, 1x40GbE or 4x10GbE by using DAC breakout cables. The DCS204 can be deployed as a TOR switch supporting 10/25/50 GbE to servers with 40/50/100 GbE uplinks, or as a spine switch supporting 40/50/100 GbE spine interconnects. This open network switch is loaded with the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE), which supports the installation of compatible Network Operating System soſtware, including the open source options, plus commercial NOS offerings.
Features
- Cost-effective, open network switch for data center fabric.
- Deploy as Top-of-Rack switch supporting 10 or 25 GbE to servers, with 40 GbE, 50 GbE, or 100 GbE uplinks
- Deploy as spine switch supporting 40 GbE, 50 GbE, or 100 GbE ToR and spine interconnects
- 32 x QSFP28 switch ports, each supporting 1 x 100 GbE or 1 x 40 GbE, or via breakout cables, 2 x 50 GbE or 4 x 25 GbE or 4 x 10 GbE
- Layer 2 or Layer 3 forwarding of 6.4 Tbps (full duplex)
- Supports hot/cold aisle with port-to-power and power-to-port airflow SKUs
- All ports on front; PSUs and fans accessible from rear
- Hot-swappable, load-sharing, redundant AC or -48V DC PSUs
- 5+1 redundant, hot-swappable fan modules
- Energy efficient
- Hardware switch pre-loaded with Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) for automated loading of compatible open source and commerical NOS offerings.
- Compatible with Arrcus ArcOS
- Compatible with BISDN Linux
- Compatible with CapGemini SDvAS
- Compatible with CGS COS
- Compatible with IP Infusion OcNOS™
- Compatible with Netscout Packet Flow Switch.
- Compatible with Pica8 Inc. PicOS™
- Compatible with Pluribus Networks Netvisor ONE Network operating system
- Compatible with SONiC open source network software
Celestica Seastone2 DX030
Overview
The DX030 provides programmable data plane innovation and can support port level configuration of sub-rates between 10GbE and 50GbE. System maximums of 128 10/25GbE, or 64 50GbE, or 32 40GbE are supported with breakout cables to provide superior large radix switch for TOR or CLOS connectivity. It provides superior low latency and power efficiency in a clean PHYless design, while offering high reliability features such as redundant and hot swappable power supplies and fans in forward and reverse airflow configurations.
Seastone2 DX030 supports current and future network requirements, including a COM-E modular x86-based control plane with BMC Management Plan and Precision Timing options for easier integration of automation tools familiar to server administrators, and an ONIE installer to support 3rd party network operating systems.
Features
- Interfaces: 32 QSFP28 100GbE Ports (128 available sub-rate ports), 2 SFP+ 10G, Rear CPU/BMC shared Management (RJ45) and Console (RJ45) ports, USB (Type A)
- Switching Capacity: 3.2Tbps IO Bandwidth, 32M Byte Buffer
- Latency: Less than 500ns port to port (cut-through mode)
- EEE: 802.3az
- Datacenter: DCB, TRILL, Virtual Port (VM) Switching, L2 GRE, NVGRE and VXLAN (encap/decap TEP)
- Telemetry: Improved Instrumentation with Transient Capture Buffer, Packet Timestamp and Buffer Statistics
- CPU: Intel Atom C 1.6Ghz Dual-core (up to 8-core), 4-32GB ECC DDR4, 16GB up to 1TB M.2 SSD
- Routing Tables: Unified Forwarding Tables: up to 354K MPLS labels, 350K LPM, 128K ACL
- Content Aware Processing: Layer 2-7 packet classification, FCoE
- Transceivers: QSFP28 upto 4.5W power, SR to 300m, LR to 10km, DAC (to 5m passive)
Dell S5296F-ON
Overview
The PowerSwitch S5200-ON 25/100GbE fixed switches comprise Dell Technologies’ latest disaggregated hardware and software data center networking solutions, providing state-of-the-art, high-density 25/100GbE ports and a broad range of functionality to meet the growing demands of today’s data center environment. These innovative, next-generation open networking switches offer optimum flexibility and cost-effectiveness for web 2.0, enterprise and cloud service providers with demanding compute and storage traffic environments.
The S5200-ON is a complete family of switches:12-port, 24-port, and 48-port 25GbE/100GbE ToR switches, 96- port 25GbE/100GbE Middle of Row (MoR)/End of Row (EoR) switch, and a 32-port 100GbE Multi-Rate Spine/ Leaf switch. From the compact half-rack width S5212FON providing an ideal form factor for hyper-converged deployments, to the high density S5296F-ON for Middle of Row deployments, the S5200-ON series offers performance and flexibility for a variety of network designs.
Features
- 1 or 2RU high-density ToR switches with up to 48 or 96 ports of 25GbE or 32 ports of 100GbE
- Multi-rate 100GbE ports support 10/25/40/50/100GbE
- Scalable L2 and L3 Ethernet switching with QoS and a full complement of standards-based IPv4 and IPv6 features, including OSPF and BGP routing support
- Line-rate performance via non-blocking switch fabrics: 3.2Tbps (6.4Tbps full-duplex) on S5296F-ON and S5232F-ON, 2.0Tbps (4.0Tbps full-duplex) on S5248FON, and 1.08Tbps (2.16Tbps full-duplex) on S5224FON and S5212F-ON
- L2 multipath support via Virtual Link Trunking (VLT) and Routed VLT support
- VXLAN gateway functionality support for bridging and routing the non-virtualized and the virtualized overlay networks with line rate performance
- Supports Dell Enterprise SONiC Distribution by Dell Technologies. Dell Enterprise SONiC Distribution by Dell Technologies helps IT organizations to run their business with the innovation, automation and reliability that comes from a commercial offering of SONiC with production-ready enterprise feature enhancements, hardening and global support targeted for demanding data center leaf and spine fabrics
- Supports Dell SmartFabric OS10
- Converged network support for DCB, with priority flow control (802.1Qbb), ETS (802.1Qaz), DCBx and iSCSI TLV support
- Routable RoCE to enable convergence of compute and storage on Leaf/Spine Fabric
- IO panel to PSU airflow or PSU to IO panel airflow Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans on most models
- Supports the open source Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) for zero touch installation of alternate network operating systems
- Tool-less enterprise ReadyRails™ mounting kits for most models reducing time and resources for switch rack installation (S5212F-ON will utilize a tandem tray for mounting)
- Power-efficient operation and Dell Fresh Air 2.0 compliant up to 45ºC helps reduce cooling costs in temperature constrained deployments
Edgecore AS7816-64X
Overview
The Edgecore DCS500 is a Top-of-Rack (TOR) or spine switch for high-performance data centers. The switch provides line-rate L2 and L3 switching across the 64 x QSFP28 ports, each supporting 1 x 100 GbE or 1x 40 GbE, or via breakout cables 4 x 25 GbE or 4 x 10 GbE. The DCS500 can be deployed as a TOR switch supporting 10/25 GbE to servers with 40/100 GbE uplinks, or as a spine switch supporting 40/100 GbE spine interconnects. This open network switch is loaded with the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE), which supports the installation of compatible Network Operating System soſtware, including the open source options Open Network Linux and SONiC, plus commercial NOS offerings.
Features
- Cost-effective, open network switch for data center fabric.
- 64 x QSFP28 switch ports, each supporting 1 x 100 GbE or 1 x 40 GbE, or via breakout cables 4 x 25 GbE or 4 x 10 GbE.
- Incorporates Broadcom StrataXGS Tomahawk II switch series silicon for non-blocking line rate performance.
- High performance Intel Xeon D-1518 CPU with optional BMC.
- 2 RU form factor.
- Supports hot/cold aisles with front-to-back and back-to-front airflow SKUs.
- All ports on front; PSUs and fans accessible from rear.
- Hot-swappable, load-sharing, redundant 850W PSUs.
- 3+1 redundant, hot-swappable fan modules.
- Hardware switch pre-loaded with Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) for automated loading of compatible open source and commerical NOS offerings.
- Compatible with Arrcus ArcOS
- Compatible with IP Infusion OcNOS™
- Compatible with Netscout Packet Flow Switch
- Compatible with Open Network Linux (ONL), the open-source, OCP reference NOS.
- Compatible with Pica8 Inc. PicOS™
- Compatible with Pluribus Networks Netvisor ONE Network operating system
- Supports the Redfish management API, now a requirement of the Open Compute Project.
- Compatible with SONiC open source network software.