The ideal data center switch for cloud, Ethernet storage fabrics, and machine learning solutions. This switch delivers high performance, consistent low latency along with support for advanced software defined networking features, making it the ideal choice for web scale IT, cloud, hyperconverged storage and data analytics applications.
Performance without compromise
Packet buffer architecture has a major impact on overall switch performance. The Mellanox Spectrum-2 packet buffer is fully shared across all ports, supporting cut-through line rate traffic from all ports, without compromising scale or features. With its fast packet buffer, Mellanox Spectrum-2 is able to provide a high-performance fair and bottleneck-free data path for mission-critical applications.
Features without compromise
For modern data center infrastructure to be software defined and agile, both its compute and network building blocks need to be agile. Mellanox Spectrum-2 features a unique feature rich and efficient packet processing pipeline that offers rich data center network virtualization features without compromising on performance or scale.
Pervasive visibility for simplified operations
Mellanox Spectrum-2 provides deep and contextual network visibility, which enables network operators to proactively manage issues and reduce mean time to recovery/innocence.
Scale without compromise
The number of endpoints in the data center is increasing exponentially. With the current shift from virtual machine-based architectures to container-based architectures, the high-scale forwarding tables required by modern data centers increase by up to an order of magnitude or more. To answer these needs for scalability and flexibility, Mellanox Spectrum-2 uses intelligent algorithms and efficient resource sharing, and supports unprecedented forwarding table, counters and policy scale.
