Mellanox MSN4600 Open Ethernet Switch Series

The SN4600C is a 64-port 100GbE network switch system that is ideal for spine/super-spine applications. With a landmark 8.4Bpps processing capacity and 12.8Tb/s throughput in a dense 2U form factor, SN4600C offers diverse connectivity in combinations of 10/25/40/50/100 GbE. The SN4600C is well-suited to answer the challenging needs of large virtualized data centers and cloud environments.

Visibility

• NVIDIA What Just Happened (WJH) telemetry dramatically reduces mean time to issue resolution by providing answers to When, What, Who, Where, and Why
• Hardware-accelerated histograms track and summarize queue depths at the sub-microsecond granularity
• Inband Network Telemetry (INT)-ready hardware
• Streaming Telemetry
• 512K on-chip flow counters

Performance

• A fully shared packet buffer provides a fair, predictable, and high bandwidth data path
• Consistent and low cut-through latency
• Intelligent hardware-accelerated data movement, congestion management & load balancing for RoCE & Machine learning applications that leverage NVIDIA GPUDirect
• Best-in-class VXLAN scale-10X more tunnels and tunnel endpoints
• 512K shared forwarding entries flexibly shared across ACL, LPM routes, host routes, MAC, ECMP, and tunnel applications
• Up to 1M IPv4 route entries

Agility

• Comprehensive Layer-2, Layer-3, and RoCE
• Advanced network virtualization with high-performance single-pass VXLAN routing and IPv6 segment routing
• Cloud Scale NAT - 100K+ sessions
• A programmable pipeline that can programmatically parse, process, and edit packets
• Deep Packet Inspection - 512B deep