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The Aurora 830 is a high-density 400GbE switch designed to address the performance, capacity, and service requirements of next-gen networks, high-bandwidth data centers, and 5G applications. It’s based on the StrataXGS® Trident4-X11 series and delivers fully user-programmable forwarding and instrumentation capabilities while offering minimal power consumption and latency.

32 QSFP-DD interfaces are backward compatible with QSFP28 and provide a flexible solution for any data center, enterprise, or CSP environment supporting break-out configuration to 64x200GbE or 128x 100GbE ports. Six ports support OpenZR+ 400G transceivers.

Aurora 830 has extensive features to address the rapidly increasing scale of data center network deployments and distributed computing applications. These features include flexible in-band and streaming telemetry, large-scale forwarding databases with flexible allocations to allow tailoring to the required application, and support for the latest in data center protocols.

To enable high network utilization, Aurora 830 features a wide variety of load balancing and congestion management technologies, including Dynamic Load Balancing, Dynamic Group Multipathing, Resilient Hashing, Latency-Based ECN marking, and Elephant Flow detection/re-prioritization.

The system has embedded BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) to provide server-style Ethernet switch management. In addition to monitoring the health of temperature, power status, and cooling fans, BMC aids in deploying and managing software and hardware assets.

Aurora 830 is programmed using the NPL high-level language.  For more information on NPL, please visit https://nplang.org/.

Runtime programmability allows numerous functions to be updated while the switch is in operation, with no downtime. For example, access control policy tables, size, type of telemetry metadata, packet trace, and packet drop can all be modified without disturbing packet flow. The result is dramatically reduced operational complexity, higher network flexibility, and higher network availability.

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.

Key features

• Compiler-programmable packet processing
• Flexibility to implement advanced network functionality such as DDoS protection, application load balancing, and large-scale NAT
• Industry-leading packet buffer and database sizes
• Extensive programmable in-band telemetry including support for IFA 2.0 (In-band Flow Analyzer version 2)
• A wide variety of load balancing and congestion management features including Dynamic Load Balancing, Dynamic Group Multipathing, Resilient Hashing, Latency-Based ECN marking, and Elephant Flow detection and re-prioritization

Network monitoring

• Broadview™ Gen 4 integrated network instrumentation feature set and software suite, providing full visibility to network operators into packet flow behavior, traffic management state, and switch internal performance

Performance

• 32x 400GbE QSFP-DD ports in 1 RU
  Up to 128x 100G ports via break-out cables
• 12.8Tbps Broadcom Trident4-X11 BCM56880
• Intel Xeon processor D-2145NT with eight cores for application deployment improves control-plane performance
• Up to 32GB of DDR4 memory (16GB default)

Reliable hardware platform

• Redundant 1300W 1+1 power
• Redundant N+1 cooling

Network OS (NOS) options

• Ubuntu Linux with open Broadcom SDK for application development.
• SONiC offers a full suite of network functionality, like BGP and RDMA, that has been production-hardened in the data centers of some of the largest cloud service providers.
• InfiniCORE Network Visibility Studio transforms the Aurora 830 into a visibility powerhouse, leveraging the NPL programmability in the Trident4-X11 chipset. Visibility Studio provides a full data path design environment known as the NextIO Design Environment right from the Web-based UI.