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The Aurora 420 is a cost-effective 10G switch suited for Top-of-Rack/Spine Datacenter, Enterprise, and Cloud Service Provider network deployments. It is a true PHY-less design in a compact 1RU form factor.

The Aurora 420 provides full line-rate switching at Layer 2 or Layer 3 across 48 x 10GbE ports and 6 x 40GbE uplinks. Comprehensive overlay and tunneling support including VXLAN, NVGRE, MPLS.

Performance is backed by quad-core Intel Atom processor, up to 16GB DDR3 memory and 64GB SSD drive for application deployment. RAS features include a redundant hot-swappable power supply (1+1) and fans (N+1). x86-based control plane provides access to an ecosystem of the same Linux applications that are deployed on servers.

Extensive SW support includes multiple options, from traditional feature-rich L2/L3 stacks like ICOS to open-source SONiC and advanced NPB suite from InfiniCore.

Available in Back to Front (BtoF) and Front to Back (FtoB) airflow configurations.

Leaf-Spine architecture

• With new networking paradigm in modern DC, Aurora 420 is great for Leaf tier or distribution switch in 1G environment. You can achieve number of advantages over traditional Core/Aggregation/Access approach:
• Two-tier fabric with near-optimal subscription ratio
• Easy scale to hundreds of nodes
• Energy Efficient
• Lower latency

Simplified deployment

• With full Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) support, network operators can install the target Network Operating Systems (NOS) as part of data center provisioning, in the fashion that servers are provisioned.

Performance

• 48x 10G SFP+ + 6x 40G QSFP+ in 1 RU
• 720Gbps Broadcom Trident 2 BCM56854
• 1071 million packets per second
• Intel Atom 2558 quad core processor for application deployment
• Up to 16GB of DDR3 memory (8GB default)

Reliable hardware platform

• Redundant 550W 1+1 power
• Redundant N+1 cooling

Network OS (NOS) options

• Broadcom ICOS - Web-scale NOS with traditional L2/L3 functions and management, with an API structure for third-party apps and integration with provisioning and orchestration systems.
  
  Latest ICOS release runs in OS-as-a-service mode and supports the use of Linux shell tools for management, provisioning, application deployment and orchestration enabling customer a seamless path to network modernization for network virtualization, SDN, SDDC, and NFV.
• Open Network Linux is a Linux distribution for "bare metal" switches, that is, network forwarding devices built from commodity components. ONL uses ONIE to install onto on-board flash memory. Open Network Linux is a part of the Open Compute Project and is a component in a growing collection of open source and commercial projects.
  
  OpenNSL and OF-DPA 3.0 are available on request.
• OpenSwitch - an open source, Linux-based network operating system (NOS) designed to power enterprise-grade switches from multiple hardware vendors that will enable organizations to rapidly build data center networks that are customized for unique business needs.
  
  Now integrated with OF-DPA 3.0 and OVS for a seamless OpenFlow support.
• Microsoft SONiC - a collection of networking software components required to have a fully functional L3 device. It is designed to meet the requirements of a cloud data center. It is fully open-sourced at OCP.