Large brokers require a networking infrastructure that has the reach and flexibility to underpin their client connectivity platform, to be able to access the order flow to drive their business.
A provider of client connectivity and distributed FX ECN platform for financial firms is looking to improve its network to keep up with the financial arms race, delivering on-demand, secure and scalable infrastructure.
While network switches and routers have evolved to support immense growth of data traffic, network service appliances and server capacity remain limited to a couple of hundreds of gigabits at best, far below the multi-terabit network throughput capacity. Considerable resources are invested in deploying of hardware and software load balancing for scale-out. Increased infrastructure costs and the burden of life cycle management for the load balancing infrastructure hold the business back.
Netberg Aurora 610, powered by the Tofino chip and P4 programmability, bridges the performance gap between multi-terabit switches and gigabit servers and appliances.
A custom fit-for-purpose software stack, based on Open Network Linux and Netberg-provided BSP for the P4 Studio SDE, took its place at the control plane.
Supporting multiple load-balancing mechanisms, resilient hashing, and flexible allocation of hardware resources to load-balance millions of connections, load-balancing can be done inside the switch, providing multi-terabit traffic distribution for Layer 3 and 4 services and applications.
A large number of software-based load-balancer servers were replaced by Netberg Aurora 610 switches, reducing the cost of load balancing by order of magnitude, with a distributed architecture and optimized traffic path.
Bringing modern Tofino-based Netberg switches in the path gave multiple benefits to the service provider:
Netberg meets the growing demand for open network hardware based on merchant silicon.
Taipei, Taiwan, 14th of November 2022. Netberg announced the new Aurora 810 400G model programmable switch with Intel Tofino 2 Intelligent Fabric Processors (IFPs) at its heart. The new platform has 32x 400G QSFP-DD Ethernet ports and a 12.8Tbps switching capacity.
Taipei, Taiwan, 24th of October 2022. Netberg participates in the new round of the Fast Forward Initiative by Intel (FFI'22). The program supports academic and research organizations today, aiming at accelerating tomorrow's best network programmability research.
Taipei, Taiwan 13th of July 2022. Netberg launches its hardened SONiC distribution for Intel Tofino and Marvell Teralynx platforms.
Taipei, Taiwan 8th of November 2021. Netberg’s SONiC platform code for Aurora 715 and Aurora 615 Innovium Teralynx-based switches is accepted into the official GitHub repository.
Taipei, Taiwan 1st of June 2021. Netberg, a leading open networking vendor, announces two new Aurora 715 and Aurora 615 models - high-performance 25/100G switches for future-proof Cloud, Enterprise, and Edge data centers.
Taipei, Taiwan 17th of November 2020. Netberg announces new services - custom networking software and hardware development.