Asterfusion SONiC NOS based 48x1G Base-T PoE+ Open Campus Switch Overview

 Previously, we’ve written a lot articles about open networking and white box switching. From now on, we will start to do a series of Asterfusion switch teardowns for a more detailed evaluation. Before the text begins, it is necessary to give a brief introduction to the Asterfusion switch family, which is divided into DC Fabric and Campus Access . The former provides TOR and SPINE application networking for data centers, and the latter offers typical networking capabilities for campus access. 

Asterfusion named its SONiC-based enterprise distribution as AsterNOS, and the system model equipped with AsterNOS was named CX series. Among them, CX200-M is a new generation Campus Access series, the speed starts from Gigabit access; that is part of the Asterfusion’s campus network solution for aggregation and access layers. But actually, the solution is based on Spine/Leaf architecture, not the traditional “access-aggregation-core”, which we’ll briefly introduce the changes it bring at the end of this article) . CX3/5/7-N is DC Fabric series, from TOR 10G access to spine 400G core rate. We will introduce these products one by one in the series of evaluations.

Today we’re taking a look at a 48-port Gigibit PoE++ switch- CX206Y-48GT-M-HWP4, according to the naming rules, this is a campus access product with 6 ×25G uplink ports (6Y) and 48 Gigabit downlink electrical ports (48GT) that costs less than $1800. For more: https://cloudswit.ch/blogs/asterfusion-sonic-nos-based-48x1gbe-poe-open-enterprise-switch-overview/