Mellanox SN2100 16-port 100GbE QSFP28 Spectrum-based Managed Switch with Cumulus Linux MSN2100-CB2FC

Mellanox SN2100 16-port 100GbE QSFP28 Spectrum-based Managed Switch with Cumulus Linux

Half-width 16-port Non-blocking 100GbE Open Ethernet Switch System

The SN2100 switch provides a high density, side-by-side 100GbE switching solution which scales up to 128 ports in 1RU for the growing demands of today’s database, storage, data centers environments.

The SN2100 switch is an ideal spine and top of rack (ToR) solution, allowing maximum flexibility, with port speeds spanning from 10Gb/s to 100Gb/s per port and port density that enables full rack connectivity to any server at any speed. The uplink ports allow a variety of blocking ratios that suit any application requirement.

Powered by the Mellanox Spectrum ASIC and packed with 16 ports running at 100GbE, the SN2100 carries a whopping throughput of 3.2Tb/s with a landmark 2.38Bpps processing capacity in a compact 1RU form factor.

Following the footsteps of the SwitchX-2 based-systems, the SN2100 enjoys the legacy of the fieldproven Mellanox Onyx operating system (successor to MLNX-OS Ethernet) with a wide installed base and a robust implementation of data, control and management planes that drives the world’s most powerful data centers.

Keeping with the Mellanox tradition of setting performance record switch systems, the SN2100 introduces the world’s lowest latency for a 100GbE switching and routing element, and does so while having the lowest power consumption in the market. With the SN2100, the use of 25, 40, 50 and 100GbE in large scale is enabled without changing power infrastructure facilities.

The SN2100 is part of Mellanox’s complete end-to-end solution which provides 10GbE through 100GbE interconnectivity within the data center. Other devices in this solution include ConnectX-4 based network interface cards, and LinkX copper or fiber cabling. This end-to-end solution is topped with Mellanox NEO, a management application that relieves some of the major obstacles when deploying a network. NEO enables a fully certified and interoperable design, speeds up time to service and eventually speeds up ROI.

The SN2100 carries a unique design to accommodate the highest rack performance. Its design allows side-by-side placement of two switches in a single, 1RU slot of a 19” rack, delivering high availability to the hosts.

Database solutions require high availability and the ability to scale out in active-active configuration. For example, DB2 pureScale or Oracle RAC require high bandwidth and low latency to the caching facility, the disk storage system, etc., with connectivity to the application servers. The SN2100 is the best fit, providing the highest network throughput, resilience and a mix of 25GbE and 100GbE ports.

Benefits

Zero Packet Loss

True cut-through latency

Easy scale from one to thousands of nodes and switches

Arranged and organized data center

• Supports speeds of 1/10/25/40/50/56/100GbE
• Easy deployment
• Easy maintenance

Unprecedented performance

• Line rate performance on all ports at all packet sizes
• Storage and server applications run faster

Software Defined Networking (SDN) support

Running Mellanox Onyx, alternative operating systems over ONIE

Key Features

Throughput

• 3.2Tb/s
• 2.38 billion packets per second (Bpps)

High density

• 16 40/56/100GbE ports in 1RU
• Up to 64 10/25-ports; up to 32 50GbE ports

Lowest latency

• 300nsec for 100GbE port-to-port
• Flat latency across L2 and L3 forwarding

Lowest power

• Under 6 watts per port

Specification

• Mellanox Spectrum-based 100GbE 1U Open Ethernet Switch with Cumulus
• 16x QSFP28 ports
• 2x Power Supplies (AC)
• Short depth
• Rangeley CPU
• P2C airflow
• Rail Kit must be purchased separately

Supported Modules and Cables

• QSFP28, SFP28 short and long range optics
• QSFP28 to QSFP28 DAC cable
• QSFP breakout cables 100GbE to 4x25GbE and 40GbE to 4x10GbE DAC, optical
• QSFP breakout cables 100GbE to 2x50GbE DAC, optical QSFP AOC
• 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-SX/LX/ZX modules