ARM64 Open Network Appliance

ET3212A

Marvell OCTEON TX2 CN9670 based 24-core ARM64 open network appliance

Standard embedded Linux software stack with DPDK VPP will be provided.
DPDK applications on x86 can be easily ported to this ARM architecture
Used as edge routers, switches, hardware firewalls, security gateways, network monitoring ,NFV, etc.

In a 1U rack space, ET3212A is an open ARM64 network appliance which designs for enterprise applications. The CPU is the robust Marvell OCTEON TX2 CN9670 with 24-core processor. It supports a series of high-performance offload processing upgrade options, meanwhile standard Linux distribution with DPDK VPP software packages will be provided.

24-core ARM64 Open Hardware Platform for Intelligent Networking, Security, Wireless Infrastructure and Multi-access Edge Compute

Flexible connectivity through High-density Interface with Low Power Consumption

*Support Breakout Cable（1 x QSFP+ to 4 x SFP+ 1 x QSFP28+ to 4 x SFP28）

ET3212A consumes only 240W even when all the chips are running at high-speed.

Marvell OCTEON TX2 CN9670 based ET3212A Use Cases

Network security appliance and offloads
Network packet broker
Edge routers and switches
Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
Artificial Intelligence (AI),
SSL/IPsec offload processing,
LTE/ IoT/Fog / Edge gateways
Next-generation firewall
SD-WAN

Easy portability

With the general-purpose ARM multi-core processor inside the Asterfusion® ET3000A Intelligent Service Processing Unit, developers can deploy almost all network applications such as OVS, VPP and NGINX, into Asterfusion® ET3000A switch.

Coupled with container and virtualization technologies, Asterfusion®ET3000A switch can easily support the porting of the various applications running on x86-based architecture onto the ARM architecture

Software choices of Marvell Octean TX2 CN9670 based 24-core ARM64 Appliance

ET3212A comes with a basic network operating system framework- FusionNOS-Framework, which can be used as the foundation to develop user’s upper-layer applications
DPDK, VPP, SPDK and Ubuntu Support

Specific Application Scenarios

NFV acceleration offload in cloud network

Asterfusion® ET3000A hardware can support efficient NFV deployments.

Through offloading network functions from servers, Asterfusion® ET3212A switch can alleviate the problems such as computing performance degradation and increased OAM complexity usually encountered in the traditional NFV deployment model, thus improving overall cloud network efficiency.

5G UPF application

As a key network function of 5G core network, UPF is usually deployed in virtual container format to carry out core functions like data traffic routing & processing, etc. With AsterNOS network operating system, Asterfusion® ET3000A switch can support UPF application deployment with functions such as data forwarding, traffic QOS, and PFCP session management, thus providing customers a light-weight and low-cost 5G-UPFapplication deployment platform.

NPB Functions

When running with the Asterfusion network operating system, the SoC processor inside Asterfusion® ET3212A can support advanced network NPB functions like SSL encryption and decryption, packet de-duplication, signaling correlation marking, etc,. It can offload the processing of network traffic in back-end analytical systems and meet the overall needs of system performance, power consumption and TCO.

Tech Specs

Weight

10.3 kg

Dimensions

440 × 560 × 44 mm

CPU

Marvell OCTEON TX2 CN9670 (24-core ARM 64)

Switch Capacity

640G

Physical Dimension

19" 1RU

Thermal Airflow

Port-to-Power, Power-to-Port

SSD

2*M.2 NVME（2280 ）

What’s in the box

1RU Switch
RJ45 serial console cable

Datasheet

Warranty

The Asterfusion ET3212 is backed by a 2 year limited hardware warranty. Multiple extended support options, including advanced replacement and 24×7 support services, are available. Contact us for complete details.

Warranty

The Asterfusion ET3212A is backed by a 2 year limited hardware warranty. Multiple extended support options, including advanced replacement and 24×7 support services, are available. Contact us for complete details.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Any odds it runs advanced queue management algorithms like fq_codel (rfc8290)?

ET3000 Series are open hardware, any queue algorithm can be implemented in software, using dpdk or vpp.

What do you provide by software development on ET3000A Series?

S/W: we will provide standard Debian linux with kernel source code patched with BSP, also we will provide DPDK source code running on the H/W.

We want to try to install 6WIND on your Marvell Octeon ET3000A,does it work?

6Wind running on our ET3212A, I’m not sure if they are able to run on ARM especially Pcteon TX, please give more info. We usually run our own applications based on Vpp.

I know that network monitoring, hardware security is good to use OCTEON, but not sure if GPU workloads accelerating can use OCTEON ?

If you have your software and running on NXP, I think it’s no problem on OCTEON almost.

Does Asterfusion ET3000A support ARM64 DPDK?

Yes. we support. For S/W: we will provide standard Debian linux with kernel source code patched with BSP, also we will provide DPDK source code running on the H/W.

What is Lead time of Asterfusion Marvell Octeon TX ET3000A

We can provide 1~4 weeks lead time under 20 units and 4-8 weeks under 100 units so far.

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