Asterfusion Data Technologies

When smartphone appeared 15 years ago, it changed mobile communication completely .  Today,   smart network interface card   ( SmartNIC ) is setting off a similar revolution in the data center.However, what is SmartNiC and How do you use it ? We will reveal it in this article. With the rapid development of cloud and virtualization technologies in data centers,the Open vSwitch (OVS) and various virtualization network functions implemented on X86 based on Kernel architecture already cannot guarantee forwarding performance and consume a lot of computing resources. Then, DPDK cam e  along, and the performance was greatly improved, but the processing still relies on servers and standard network interface card (NIC) that weren’t optimized for data transmission, and there are still performance bottlenecks and the problem of occupying too much computing resources. The growth of CPU computing power couldn’t catch up with the growth of network transmission rate, the demand for...

There are many choices for 32 × 100G network switches on the market now, such as brite box switch that are preloaded with open source software like SONiC , PicOS,  Snaproute,etc.The other choice is the bare metal switch. What is the difference and which to choose? Here use Asterfusion's Innovium SONiC low latency cloud switch and Intel tofino bare mental switch to make a comparison. Option A: Innovium SONiC low latency cloud switch  CX532P-N   （32×100G QSFP28) Asterfusion CX532 -N switch is a Top-of-Rack (TOR) or spine switch for high-performance data center ,enterprises and cloud service providers’ network deployments. With 32 x 100G QSFP28 interfaces where line-rate L2/ L3 up to 3.2 Tbps switching performance of Innovium Teralynx is paired with ultra  low-latency feature. It is well suited for cloud,NVME AI and HPC latency-sensitive applications. Built on the deployment-proven Innovium Teralynx switching ASIC, this 100G network switch is preloaded with “Aste...

There are many choices for 48 ports 25G/10G with 100G uplinks for Leaf/TOR switches on the market now.The choice such as brite box switch preloaded with open source software like OcNOS, PicOS, SONIC, etc.and the P4 bare metal switch without software. But, what is the difference and which to choose? Here is Asterfusion’s 2 types CX308P-48Y-N / X312P-48Y-T switch as an example, to make a comparison. Option A:  CX-308P-48Y-N  preloaded SONiC Enterprise Distribution based on Innovium Teralynx The Asterfusion CX308-48Y- N is a 48 ports 25GbE switch with 8 ports 100G uplinks which suited for data center top-of-rack switch, enterprise and cloud service providers network deployments, where line-rate L2/ L3 up to 2.0 Tbps switching performance of Innovium Teralynx is paired with ultra low-latency in a compact 1RU form factor .It is well suited for cloud,NVME, AI and HPC latency-sensitive applications. Built on the deployment-proven Innovium Teralynx switching ASIC, this open netwo...

Asterfusion is the only vendor on the market using SONiC network Operating System to support Innovium Treralynx , Tofino, Marvell to develop full series SONiC white box switches. Open-source Network operating system is increasingly popular nowadays, but most of them are deployed Broadcom switching chips of the community version. Meanwhile, with the trend of software-defined network development, more and more innovative technologies are thriving to change the landscape of the data centers and cloud networks,what do these innovations bring to us? There are some questions still haven't been answered, such as …… Intel Tofino chips with P4 programmability and Teralynx chips with ultra-low-latency performance, how’s extent of support open source SONiC offers to those chips in data center scenarios? Can cost-effective switches used in small-scale networks also be deployed with a feature-rich SONiC NOS? Will there be any new application scenarios when programmable switching chips and DPUs...