Open Networking
Increase agility and lower costs with open networking. Through trusted partnerships with top brands, Hardware Nation offers a full catalog of open networking products. We provide complete end-to-end solutions for every part of your network environment.
Benefits of Open Networking
An open networking model is usually well-liked by network engineers and administrators alike as it gives them the freedom to choose what hardware and software make up their network. It also has the added advantage of not having to rely on a single vendor. You can choose your hardware and software based on your needs. Customers see significant CapEx and OpEx savings over traditional networking. You will be able to innovate faster with a DevOps and community approach. In addition, customers get reduced costs and time saved with automated rollouts and operations.
Top benefits:
- Freedom of choice
- Reduced cost
- Faster innovation
- Automation
Our Open Network Services
Tech Support
Pre-sales & after-sales technical support
Consultations
Our specialists are eager to help determine your needs.
Configurations
We have the ability to custom configure in-house.
Data
We will get you product documents and testing data.
Increase Efficiency and Reduce Costs
Open networking solutions enable efficiency and faster innovation across your organization, but realizing its full value requires a trusted partner. Our team of specialists and partners have the experience, expertise, and objectivity to help you with virtually any open networking questions.
Open Switches
With open switches are switches are original design manufacturer (ODM) switches without an operating system pre-loaded on them. By separating the hardware and software customers typically see significant CapEx and OpEx savings over traditional networking. You will also be able to innovate faster with a DevOps and community approach.
Edge-Core Open Switches
Edge-Core open networking solution are based on open standard, bare-metal hardware with a choice of independent open software for NOS (Network Operating Systems), SDN, virtualization, and cloud orchestration.
NVIDIA Mellanox Spectrum Open Switches
Mellanox Spectrum based Linux switches deliver leading performance, efficiency & scalability. Mellanox Spectrum switches are compatible with a variety of network operating systems, including NVIDIA Cumulus Linux, SONiC, NVIDIA Onyx, and DENT . Switches are configurable with optics and software.
Network Operating Systems
You now have the freedom to choose the best software for your needs. Network operating systems (NOS) are purpose built to run on open switches. Our team can help your organization select, deploy, and manage NOS. Some NOS options include the following.
NVIDIA Cumulus Networks
With the acquisition of Cumulus Networks, NVIDIA has become the leader in end-to-end open networking for all layers of hardware and software. NVIDIA offer Cumulus Linux NOS and NVIDIA NetQ.
Pica8 PICOS
PICOS® is the only two-in-one open network operating system (NOS) coupling full enterprise support with “classic” SDN. It comes in two versions, PICOS Enterprise and SDN editions.
SONiC
SONiC is a free open source NOS developed by Microsoft and the Open Compute Project. It includes networking components necessary for a fully functional L3 device.
DENT
DENT NOS uses the Linux Kernel, Switchdev, and other Linux-based projects to allow developers to treat networking ASICs and silicon like any other hardware. This simple disaggregated Linux/SwitchDev-based switch ultimately simplifies integration across the ecosystem and encourages application developers to adopt this new standard.
IPInfusion
IP Infusion delivers enterprise and carrier-grade software solutions, allowing network operators to reduce network costs, increase flexibility, and to deploy new features and services quickly.
Shop Switches by ASIC
Choose your switch by ASIC. We have the most popular ASICs listed below, including Broadcom, Barefoot, and Spectrum.
Barefoot Tofino 3.3T
Barefoot Tofino 3.3T is a P4-programmable switch chip from Barefoot Networks that can run up to speeds of 6.5 Tbit/s.
Barefoot Tofino 6.5T
Barefoot Tofino 6.5T is a P4-programmable switch chip from Barefoot Networks that can run up to speeds of 6.5 Tbit/s.
Broadcom Helix 4
These switches use Broadcom’s Helix 4 silicon.
Broadcom Hurricane 2
These switches use Broadcom’s Hurricane 2 silicon.
Broadcom Maverick
These switches use Broadcom’s Maverick silicon.
Broadcom Qumran-AX
Broadcom’s Qumran-AX ASIC helps build highly scalable, feature-rich switches to enable cloud-scale networking and Carrier applications.
Broadcom Qumran-MX
The Broadcom Qumran-MX ASIC switch series are high-performance flexible, feature-rich, and deep-buffering switches that enable cloud-scale networking and carrier applications. They process up to 800Gbps of traffic and support flexible 10G/25G/40G/50G/100G network interfaces. The flexible and microcode-programmable packet processor supports bridging, routing, MPLS, VPLS, L2VPNs, L3VPNs, OAM, and Data Center Tunneling Encapsulations including VXLAN and NV-GRE. Some applications include storage applications ToR, border leaf, and data center interconnect (DCI).
Broadcom StrataDNX Jericho2
Broadcom StrataDNX Jericho2 ASIC helps build highly scalable, feature-rich, module chassis or aggregation switches to enable cloud-scale networking and Carrier network applications. Jericho2 supports standard implementation for 100 and 400 Gigabit Ethernet.
Broadcom Tomahawk 2
Tomahawk 2 ASIC can be used to build highly scalable and feature-rich ToR (top-of-rack) switches, blade switches, and core fabric equipment to enable cloud-scale networking.
Broadcom Tomahawk 3
The Tomahawk 3 ASIC introduces 56G-PAM4 SerDes to the industry-leading Tomahawk line, supporting up to 12.8 Tb/s of switch chip bandwidth along with the new 400G and 200G IEEE standards. It supports up to 32x400G, 64x200G or 128x100G ports.
Broadcom Tomahawk+
Broadcom Tomahawk+ series ASICs can help build highly scalable, feature-rich, top-of-rack (ToR), blade or aggregation switches to enable cloud-scale networking.
Broadcom Trident 2
Trident 2 based switches can be used to build highly scalable, feature-rich, blade switches, top-of-rack (ToR) switches, and aggregation equipment to enable cloud-scale networking. It supports VXLAN and enables spanning-tree-free and CLOS-style network topologies through TRILL, SPB and ECMP.
Broadcom Trident 3
Trident 3 based switches can be used to build highly scalable, low-power, feature rich top-of-rack (ToR), aggregation, and spine switches. This ASIC introduces dataplane programmability and 25 Gbps SerDes into the industry-leading Trident line. It supports new overlays and tunneling, such as GENEVE, NSH, VXLAN, GPE, MPLS, MPLS over GRE/UDP, GUE, ILA and PPPoE.
Broadcom Trident+
These switches use Broadcom’s Trident+ silicon.
Spectrum 3
The NVIDIA Mellanox Spectrum-3 SN4000 series switches are the 4th generation of NVIDIA networking Spectrum switches, purpose-built for leaf/spine/super-spine datacenter applications. They are ideal for data center switches for cloud, ethernet storage fabrics, as well as machine learning.
Spectrum 2
NVIDIA Mellanox Spectrum-2 SN3000 ethernet switches are ideal for leaf and spine data center network solutions, allowing maximum flexibility with port speeds from 1GbE to 400GbE per port and port density that enables full-rack connectivity to any server at any speed. SN3000 carries a whopping bidirectional switching capacity of up to 12.8Tb/s with a landmark 8.33Bpps packet processing rate.
Spectrum
NVIDIA Mellanox Spectrum SN2000 series open ethernet switches provide the highest performance with 1/10/25/40/50/100G speeds. With comprehensive support for virtualization and large forwarding tables, Spectrum SN2000 is ideal for building large layer-2 and layer-3 data center fabrics.
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Amazing company and people to work with. They understand your needs based on your requirements. They were phenomenal in providing the support and assistance we needed for our DC hardware. I highly recommend them as a vendor/supplier for white box networking sales, support, and services.
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