The Netberg Aurora 721 is a 100GbE switch suited for Top-of-Rack/Spine Datacenter, Enterprise, and CSP network deployments. It has 32 x 100GbE QSFP28 interfaces and supports up to 128 interfaces using DAC break-out cables.
The system uses Broadcom Trident3-X7 silicon that introduces data plane programmability. The programmable pipeline allows new features to be added after deployment using in-field upgrades, providing capex investment protection for operators.
Support for new overlays and tunneling such as GENEVE, NSH, VXLAN, GPE, MPLS, MPLS over GRE/UDP, GUE, ILA, and PPPoE, new instrumental features bring intelligence to the network and push service capacity to the next level.
Performance is backed by a quad-core Intel Atom C3508 processor, up to 32GB DDR4 memory, and 64GB SSD drive for application deployment. RAS features include a redundant hot-swappable power supply (1+1) and fans (N+1) for lower maintenance costs. The switch has a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) onboard to provide server-like monitoring and power control functions through a shared Ethernet interface.
The system supports Netberg SONiC as the complete switching package, Ubuntu Linux and OpenBCM Broadcom Core Switch Software Development Kit (SDK) allow custom application development, and InfiniCore Visibility Studio for network visibility and management solutions.
MSRP | Buy Broadcom Trident3-X7 in Aurora 721 bare metal switch preloaded with ONIE for US$6,500 |
Ports | 32x 100/40GbE QSFP28 ports in 1 RU Up to 128 x 10/25G SFP28 ports via break-out cables 1x 10G SFP+ management port 1x RJ45 out-of-band (10/100/1000) management 1x RJ45 console (RS232) 1x USB 3.0 Type-A |
Front IO | Fan LED System status LED PSU1 status LED PSU2 status LED ID LED Reset button |
Performance | Switching silicon: 3.2Tbps Broadcom Trident3-X7 BCM56870 Latency: <800 ns (PHY-less) Packet Buffer: 32MB Intel® Atom™ Processor C3508 8GB DDR4 ECC (up to 32GB) 64GB SSD |
Management | ASPEED AST2620 BMC IPMI 2.0, shared Ethernet port |
Power | 1+1 750W redundant, load sharing, hot-swappable PSU modules AC/HVDC input: 100-240V~, 10-5A/190-310VDC, 5A (AC Inlet: IEC 60320 C14) DC input: -36 to -72V, 16A Typical power: 190Watts (without optics) |
Cooling | 3 N+1 redundant fans Front-to-Back/Back-to-Front airflow |
Dimensions (WxDxH) | 1U, 440 x 480 x 44 mm Rackmount kit |
Environment | Operating temperature: 0~45°C Operating humidity: 20-95% maximum relative humidity (non-condensing) |
Warranty | 3 year |
EMC and safety | Aurora 721 Safety and Regulatory Information |
Compatible NOS | ONIE bootloader Ubuntu 20.04 and OpenBCM Core Switch SDK SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) InfiniCORE Network Visibility Studio |
Netberg SONiC | SONiC.202311 Layer 2: * LLDP Link aggregation: * LAG 802.3ad with LACP * LACP Fallback * MC-LAG VLAN: * IEEE 802.1Q * Port-based * Vlan Trunk Layer 3: * FRR as default routing stack * BGP ** BGP Graceful restart helper ** BGP MP ** FRR BGP NBI ** BGP/Neighbor-down fib-accelerate ** IPv6 Link Local and BGP Unnumbered * ECMP ** Consistent ECMP (fine grain ECMP) * Proxy ARP * Mgmt VRF * VRF * L3 RIF counter support * SONiC for MPLS Dataplane QoS: * QoS - ECN * QoS - RDMA * WRED * COS Management: * Standard Linux shell tools * Linux application integration * Industry standard CLI * CLI filtering * Telnet/SSH * SNMP * Warm Reboot * Incremental Config (IP, LAG, Port shut/unshut) * CoPP Config/Management * Streaming telemetry * sFlow * Syslog * Sysdump * NTP * DHCP Relay Agent * Fast Reload * Critical Resource Monitoring * MAC Aging * gRPC * Sensor transceiver monitoring * Routing Stack Graceful Restart * Dynamic Port breakout * Port Mirroring * Everflow V2 - IPV4/IPv6 Portion 2.0 * Sub-port support * Configurable drop counters * HW resource monitor * NAT * LLDP extended MIB * SONiC to SONiC upgrade * One Image * MAC Aging * MTU Setting Security: * ACL permit/deny * IPv6 ACL * MAC ACL * Dynamic ACL Upgrade * TACACS+ * RADIUS AAA * Egress mirroring and ACL action support * Egress shaping (port, queue) Data Center: * Priority Flow Control ** PFC WD ** Asymmetric PFC ** PFC Watermark * Tunnel Decap * L3 VXLAN * BGP-EVPN * EVPN/VXLAN * Dynamic headroom calculation (RoCEv2) * Dynamic policy based hashing for NVGRE/VxLAN packets * PINS (P4 Integrated Network Stack) |