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Asterfusion SONiC based L3 managed PoE Switches

Asterfusion SONiC based L3 managed PoE switches are equipped with Marvell Prestera switch ASIC chips, providing high speed data processing and stable performance. Offers Rich PoE+,POE++ Power Options With 370W,740W, 1440W budget.

At Asterfusion, we’re committed to creating a more open and adaptable campus network, including our POE model.

Check below link for Asterfsuion SONiC based L3 managed PoE Switches data & feature info:

Asterfusion Networks is the leading provider of open networking infrastructure solutions. We provide an open, disaggregated, and highly programmable network fabric for next generation data centers and campus with white-box switching. 

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Alternative to Infiniband used in ChatGPT: Asterfusion Ultra-Low-Latency Switches

In 2019, Microsoft pledged to invest a whopping $1 billion in OpenAI and committed to constructing an enormous supercomputer for the cutting-edge AI startup.

AI computing cluster networks on a vast scale, such as ChatGPT, often involve thousands of GPU cards. As AI large-scale model training has inherent requirements, there’s minimal room for optimizing costs on the computing power side. 

Not long ago, Microsoft’s Vice President of Cloud Computing and AI, Scott Guthrie, revealed that the company dedicated hundreds of millions of dollars to this ambitious project which combined the power of tens of thousands of Nvidia A100 GPUs with the Azure cloud computing platform.

However, if an alternative solution with comparable performance to InfiniBand can be found for the networking aspect—thus reducing initial investments and operational costs—it might be very worth considering.

Asterfusion Neworks could be your quality choice of ultra-low-latency switches. Proven nearly half ExPo but 90%+ performance compared to InfiniBand switches.

Check below link for details & a comprehensive test results between Cisco CX532P-N & InfiniBand switches:

Asterfusion Networks is the leading provider of open networking infrastructure solutions. We provide an open, disaggregated, and highly programmable network fabric for next generation data centers and campus with white-box switching. 

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Asterfusion Open-Source SmartNIC DPU

Following the collaboration principle of open-source, Asterfusion had decided to make its high performance DPU based SmartNIC be open-sourced. We'd love to invite veterans in the eco to connect with us to explore more innovative potentials of DPU in a variety of applications. Detailed information & source code of SmartNIC will be soon availble at GitHub.

For more, please visit below blog or contact Ivy (zhangyunyun@cloudswit.ch) directly.

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Asterfusion Next-Generation Campus Networks: Bye, Stacking!

At the early stages of cloud computing, cloud network architecture was modeled after the traditional campus network. However, market demand has driven the cloud network to undergo significant changes over the past two decades.

Today, the cloud network has surpassed the traditional campus network in terms of network architecture, hardware equipment, scalability, and operation& maintenance capabilities. If the advanced network architecture and technical highlights of the cloud are introduced to the campus, what changes will it bring?

Today, Asterfusion has introduced cloud-based open architecture back to campus network. The CLOS based Spine-Leaf architecture retains the advantages of stacking ones and can also solve some drawbacks of them.

This article will explore how Asterfusion’s new cloud cluster campus network addresses the shortcomings of the traditional stack architecture to achieve even higher reliability and scalability.

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Asterfusion: From Data Center to Campus Network- All in SONiC

Nowaday, SONiC switches have been a popular choice in the world's most advanced data centers like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Cloud. The open network technology they represent has brought a massive change to the IT industry.

Asterfusion, as an open networking solutions vendor of 1G- 400G data center & campus white box switches powered by SONiC NOS, brings high performance, scale-out and naturally safe cloud fabric without STP & flooding.

Check out what Asterfusion could help specifically in your network infrastructure:

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Distilogix Open Networking Training with Asterfusion, Dec 22 2022

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CX-N Ultra-low Latency Data Center Switch | Asterfusion

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X-T P4-Programmable Bare Metal Switch based on Intel Tofino| Asterfusion

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X-T series P4-Programmable Bare Metal Switch based on Intel Tofino| Asterfusion

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Asterfusion 400G Low Latency White Box Switches powered by SONiC NOS

Asterfusion CX-N series white box switches are ultra-low latency Ethernet cloud switches, preloaded with a feature rich SONiC enterprise distribution-AterNOS which provides users a simple, plug-and-play deployment and turnkey solution. It can provide high-performance network services for high Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, AI big data analysis, High-frequency trading, Cloud OS integration and other services in cloud data centers, it can also be deployed in various scenarios such as cloud-based campus networks and carrier networks.

In December 2022, we launched 200G and 400G open data center network switches.

Read below for details:

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Asterfusion Enterprise SONiC NOS now Support CISCO style CLI

Asterfusion just launched its full series of access& aggregation network switch for next generation cloud campus network in 2022 Q4. To make it more operational with traditional network engineers, we made CISCO like CLI so that engineers only need to log in to the switch and type two lines of code to access the Klish interface and start working quickly.

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Asterfusion Officially Launch Open-Source Campus Switches Supporting CISCO-style CLI

Asterfusion has announced the official launch of full series of access& aggregation network switch for new generation cloud campus network in 2022 Q4 embracing the concept of openness, simplification and energy saving. All series preloaded with the self-developed AsterNOS network operating system based on  SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud), which also support CISCO-style command line, aiming at facilitate the transformation of open campus network services.

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Asterfusion's opennet working infrastructure solutions

Asterfusion provides a highly #disaggregated and #programmable #opennetworkfabric for next generation #datacenters, #campus and #serviceproviders with 1G to 400G #baremetalswitches and self-devlop Commercial #SONiCNOS - #AsterNOS to enable networks more flexible, reliable, scalable and cost-effective ! For more: https://lnkd.in/g3Hq-WXN

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What is a Leaf-Spine Architecture and how Asterfusion Contributed to Next-Generation Data Center?

Leaf-spine network architecture is composed of a leaf layer and a spine layer. The leaf layer includes Layer 2 switches (leaf switches) for connecting servers and storage devices; the spine layer includes Layer 3 switches (spine switches) for routing and forwarding, which is the backbone of the network.

What is Leaf-Spine Architecture

As shown in the figure above, the leaf-spine network architecture is composed of a leaf layer and a spine layer. The leaf layer includes Layer 2 switches (leaf switches) for connecting servers and storage devices; the spine layer includes Layer 3 switches (spine switches) for routing and forwarding, which is the backbone of the network.

What is a Characteristic of Spine-and Leaf Architecture

In the Spine-Leaf network, the network is simplified from the third level to the second level, and through the full-mesh connection built between the spine and leaf switches. It fully utilizing the very mature load sharing technology of the IP network (ie ECMP Routing, Equal- Cost Multi Path Routing), successfully resolved the problems that the three-level architecture cannot solve:

The switching domain (he layer 2 broadcast domain) is limited to the part below the leaf switch, no longer needs STP protocol for loop detection, and makes full use of bandwidth;

Enable bandwidth expanding horizontally: If the bandwidth is insufficient, increase the number of spine switches to horizontally expand bandwidth;

Easy to expand the scale of the network, only need to expand the spine switch and the corresponding Leaf switch to expand the scale of the underlying support network;

Lower performance requirements for a single switch: the north-south traffic can go out from the leaf node or the spine node, and the east-west traffic is distributed on multiple paths, reducing the performance requirements for a single switch.  

The communication between virtual computing nodes is carried on the underlying support network in a virtual network mode, so that the convenience of the cloud and the number of virtual computing nodes are no longer limited by the underlying support network;

Applications in the cloud can be migrated freely within the reachable range of the virtual network, and the IP address can be guaranteed not to change during the migration process, thus laying a solid foundation for uninterrupted services;

The two-tier network architecture greatly simplifies the switching path and provides a high performance and high reliability switching channel for the communication between virtual computing nodes (i.e. east-west traffic).  

Build Data Center Networks With Asterfusion Leaf Spine Switches

Here we take Asterfusion leaf-spine switches as an example to show how to build a leaf-spine architecture to build hyper-scale, cost-effective data centers. In this case, we will use Asterfusion CX308P-48Y-N as the leaf switch and CX532P-N as the spine switch.

Building hyper-scale, cost-effective data center with Asterfusion CX-N Leaf and Spine Switch

With the rapid development of data-intensive services such as video, social networking and big data analysis, the flow of cloud data centers shows an exponential growth trend, which inevitably requires the deployment of tens of thousands of servers, and also puts forward the demand for large-scale construction of networks.  

The application uses Asterfusion CX532P-N as Fabric layer and Spine layer, CX308P-48Y-N as Leaf layer, and uses three-layer CLOS architecture to build a super-large cloud data center network. All layers are interconnected by 100G, and 25G optical fibers are used to connect servers with 25G or 10G interfaces, enabling access to 24,576 servers.CX308P-48Y-NCX532P-N

The specific quantity and switching capacity are analyzed as follows:

Asterfusion Leaf-Spine Switch Recommendation

Asterfusion offers 3.3Tbps-6.5 Tbps programmable network switches based on Intel tofino which are well-suited for Leaf/Spine fabric as well as smart gateway of data centers, enterprises, and cloud service providers’ network deployments.Asterfusion offers 2 Tbps -12.8 Tbps data centers’ leaf and spine switch based on Teralynx chip, it preloaded with SONiC enterprise distribution which provides users a simple, plug-and-play deployment and turnkey solution.

Conclusion

It is very important to understand the leaf-spine network architecture because it has significant advantages over the traditional three-tier network architecture. For data center network administrators, deploying leaf-spine network architectures and purchasing cost-effective and high-performance data center switches are essential to meet existing business needs and future data center growth.

For more Asterfusion leaf-spine switches info, please contact zhangyunyun@cloudswit.ch; CP/ Whatsapp: +86 18916960201 or visit our website: www.cloudswit.ch.

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