Open Ethernet April 29 2014
The Evolution of SDN Switches are a build of closed software being sold as a package from switch vendors Stanford guys wanted to change the networking world using OpenFlow SDN became a popular term everything is SDN Switch vendors made OpenFlow an important protocol The networking industry finally delivers on the promise of SDN 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2
What is Open Ethernet? The freedom to choose the Ethernet switch ingredients Switch Silicon Hardware Operating System Protocol Stack 3
Decoupling the Hardware from the Software Open SDK + ONIE (Open Network Install Environment) Open SDK on Github: https://github.com/open-ethernet/oes/tree/master/oes Protocol Stack ONIE OS Open SDK System Silicon 4
Will Smaller Organizations Follow These Trends? Large organizations are adopting Open Ethernet today But still most customers are using the Cisco Nexus 2-5-7 approach, running Layer 2 with switch pairs concept Will they adopt It as well? Probably yes It becomes easy to adopt It scales It costs less (CapEx & OpEx) It performs better It enables multi-vendor strategy 5
Data Center Trends Layer 2 Layer 3 Chassis VMS (Virtual Modular Switch) Switch is the Brain Host is the Brain, Overlay networks Stacking, ISSU Full automation ( Puppets ) Single vendor switch Decoupling the software from the hardware (ONIE) Closed Open 6
Layer 2 Layer 3 L3 L2 L3 L2 Source: Facebook, October 2013 NANOG 7
Stacking, ISSU Automation 8
Puppet Integration and Contribution Mellanox is working with a few companies (Juniper, Cumulus Networks) on: Standardizing L3 Puppet entities - L3 interface (Cumulus Networks) - OSPF area (Mellanox) - OSPF interface (Mellanox) - OSPF router (Mellanox) The community has decided that OS-related functionality such as software upgrade/fetch will be implemented independently to allow software innovation 9
Open Ethernet Implementation Scalable, Affordable, Faster 10
Best ROI Switch Silicon Example What matters in a switch silicon? Highest switching capacity Lowest latency Lowest power Switching Capacity (Bpps) Latency (µsec) Power (Watt/Gb) 3 1.2 3.5 2.5 2.5 1 1 3 3 2 1.5 1.44 0.8 0.6 0.5 2.5 2 1.5 2 1 0.95 0.4 1 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.4 0 0 0 11
Mellanox Open Ethernet Switch Portfolio SX1036 36 ports of 40/56Gb/s SX1024 48 ports of 10Gb/s + 12 ports of 40/56Gb/s SX1016 64 ports of 10Gb/s SX1012 12 ports of 40/56Gb/s 12
Once Software Does the Job, It s All About Scale, Choice & Cost Topology 36 x 40/56GbE 16 x 40/56GbE 20 x 40GbE Faster, Scalable Network 13
Mellanox ToR/Spine OCP Switch Platforms 1.92/4 Tbps throughput 220/330ns L2/L3 latency x86 dual core Low power (<100W per switch) Unified management interfaces and FRUs Non-blocking 10GbE ToR / Ideal Spine switch ONIE memory compliant SwitchX-2 based 14
Open Ethernet Milestones OCP NIC ONIE Switch Open SDK API 10/40/56G Open Ethernet Switch 100Gb Open Switch Q4 2014 2015 15
So What is Exactly Mellanox? A Silicon provider? NIC provider? Switch provider? The answer is Yes, Mellanox provides Open Ethernet, Mellanox provides choice Together with our partners we are creating an Open Ethernet ecosystem, a world of choice 16
Summary 1. Choose Your Software/Hardware Components (we are working to ease the pain) 2. Choose The Most Cost-Effective Hardware 17
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