Mellanox MSN3420-CB2FC Spectrum-2 25GbE/100GbE 1U Open Ethernet Switch

Mellanox MSN3420-CB2FC Spectrum-2 Based 25GbE/100GbE 1U Open Ethernet Switch with Cumulus Linux 48 SFP28 Ports and 12 QSFP28 Ports 2 Power Supplies (AC) x86 CPU Short Depth P2C Airflow Rail Kit

MSN3420-CB2FC Switch

As data-center switching architectures increasingly adopt 100GbE, the MSN3420-CB2FC offers a high-performance, cost-effective way to evolve host connectivity from 10G to 25G. Equipped with 48 ports of 10/25GbE and 12 ports of up to 100GbE in a compact 1U form factor. The MSN3420-CB2FC is an ideal Top-of-Rack (ToR) network switch, delivering a total throughput of up to 4.8Tb/s with a processing capacity of 3.58Bpps. The MSN3420-CB2FC enables the seamless use of QSFP28 connections for leaf-spine topology and future-proofing the data center.

MSN3420-CB2FC Visibility

• Mellanox 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 submicrosecond granularity
• Inband Network Telemetry (INT)-ready hardware
• Streaming Telemetry
• 512K on-chip flow counters

MSN3420-CB2FC Performance

• Fully shared packet buffer provides a fair, predictable and high bandwidth data path
• Consistent and low cut-through latency
• Robust RoCE transport to power NVMe over fabric and Machine Learning applications that leverage NVIDIA GPUDirect
• Best-in-class VXLAN scale 10X more tunnels and tunnel endpoints than others
• 512K shared forwarding entries flexibly shared across ACL, LPM routes, host routes, MAC, ECMP and tunnel applications

MSN3420-CB2FC 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
• Programmable pipeline that can programmatically parse, process and edit packets
• Deep Packet Inspection 512B deep