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Broadcom based Switches alternative: Innovium Terelynx SONiC low latency switch

written by Asterfuison

December 13, 2021

People always ask why we choose Innovium Terelynx rather than mainstream chips as our data center cloud leaf and spine solutions ,in this article we will reveal the reason.

Recently, it was reported that Marvell acquired Innovium. We were excited when the company we worked with was acquired. Especially it’s our old friends since 2018. That also means innovium teams’ innovation and dedication have been recognized on the market.

Innovium put themselves competing in a giant field. As we know, Broadcom has a series of popular switch chips that dominate the market, it’s fairly difficult to break into the market dominated by Broadcom, usually, it needs a better product.

Innovium enables making innovations on building a switch architecture with ultra-low latency, unmatched buffers, leading telemetry data analytics and the industry’s best power efficiency in terms of performance per watt.

Its vision is to build powerful and proven switches with disruptive innovation CTO using data center optimized Terelynx ASIC and open source SONiC NOS. They transformed the networking industry and created a new era by taking open and disaggregated solutions for top hyperscalers.

Broadcom based Switches Alternative solution: Innovium Terelynx SONiC switches

Innovium enables making innovations on building a switch architecture with ultra-low latency, unmatched buffers, leading telemetry data analytics and the industry’s best power efficiency in terms of performance per watt.

Its vision is to build powerful and proven switches with disruptive innovation CTO using data center optimized Innovium Terelynx ASIC and open source SONiC NOS. They transformed the networking industry and created a new era by taking open and disaggregated solutions for top hyperscalers .

Why choose Innovium Terelynx as our data center cloud fabric solution?

Overall, Innovium has the courage of breaking into a market dominated by other giants, the spirit of making great technological innovation; the strong wiliness to break through tradition; the vision to enable the network to be more open, flexible and cost-effective which all coincide with Asterfusion.

The core members of Asterfusion are high position people from Cisco and Huawei with decades of rich experience in route and switch development,now we are seriously devoted to open and disaggregated networking solutions.

Asterfusion is always the forerunner and promoter of open networks and our vision is Re-engineering cloud networks with whitebox networking.

We have officially joined the SONiC community just when its establish , becoming one of the earliest cloud network companies to participate in SONiC community. At the same time, we cooperate with Innovium Terelynx. Since then we launched a feature -rich and a production ready enterprise SONiC distribution and full series SONiC innovium cloud switches.

Broadcom Switches Alternative Option– Innovium Terelynx switches

Now,Asterfusion is the only vendor use our enterprise SONiC support Innovium Teralynx

Asterfusion offers 2 Tbps -12.8 Tbps data centers’ leaf and spine switch based on Teralynx chip with our SONiC enterprise distribution which provides users a simple, plug-and-play deployment and turnkey solution.

We have 3 models with following features:

SONiC low latency switch. Asterfusion offers 2 Tbps -12.8 Tbps data centers’ leaf and spine switch based on Teralynx chip with SONiC enterprise distribution.

Highest Scale and Radix Solutions

•Up to 128x 100GbE, 64x 100G + 16 x 400G or 32x 400GbE.

•Up to 12.8T switch capacity.

Leading Performance/$ and Performance/W

•The largest on-chip buffer among similar switches, providing first-class micro burst elimination.

•Robust tunneling features with VXLAN/MPLS.

•Powerful QoS features for RoCEv2/RDMA , easy to use with both CLI and restful API.

•Superior to traditional chips for table sizes&ACLs required for cloud and edge.

•Comprehensive In-band Network Telemetry ( INT) function detects network failure and identifies which and why packet drop .

•Proving a centralized SDN Controller, turning clusters of switches into a single virtual fabric.

Programmability features

• Supporting new protocols programmability

.• No impact on latency & throughput

Alternative solution for Broadcom – Innovium Teralynx

The only reliable silicon diversity choice from 2T- 12.8T ,with Industry-leading low Latency, leading analytics, programmability, comprehensive features.

Innovium terelynx Specs vs Traditional DC Switch Chips

SONiC Low latency switch based on Innovium Teralynx, essential by distributed storage, AI applications and HPC, NVME.

Asterfusion CX-N enables data centers to enter the age of low latency cloud networks. It offers industry-leading low latency switching capabilities as low as ~500ns in most application scenarios. Allowing it to more than satisfy the requirements of latency-sensitive applications, such as NVME,IoT,VR/AR/MR ,HPC,NVME, distributed storage ,high-frequency trading, big data analysis machine learning and etc, making low latency network is no longer the preserve of the financial / securities industry.

Asterfusion offers 2 Tbps -12.8 Tbps data centers’ leaf and spine switch based on Teralynx chip with SONiC enterprise distribution which provides users a simple, plug-and-play deployment and turnkey solution.

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