SN5400 
Overview
The SN5400 is a Spectrum-4 switch that can function as a leaf, spine, or super-spine. It has 64 400GbE ports in a space-saving 2U form factor. The switch supports a range of connectivity through its quad small form factor double density (QSFP-DD) ports, from 1 to 400 GbE. With a total throughput of 25.6Tb/s, the SN5400 is designed for 400G data center fabrics and can handle AI and Cloud workloads.
Key Features and Benefits
- Fifth generation of Spectrum Ethernet switches, purpose-built to accelerate data center fabrics.
- Offers bidirectional switching capacity of 51.2Tb/s, with diverse configurations available.
- Capable of port speeds ranging from 1GbE to 800GbE.
- Pair the NVIDIA Spectrum-4 ethernet switches with the NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs to create the Spectrum-X platform, and get top-notch performance for AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and various industry applications.
- Provides a fully shared packet buffer, ensuring a fair, predictable, and high-bandwidth data path.
- Ensures consistent and low cut-through latency, enabling quick data transfer.
- Demonstrates best-in-class VXLAN scale to support large virtualized environments.
- Possesses 512,000 shared forwarding entries, flexibly distributed across ACL, longest prefix match (LPM) routes, host routes, MAC, ECMP, and tunnel applications.
- Offers a complete security suite at all switch layers, with hardware, firmware, and software authenticated by a built-in root of trust.
- Pre-installed with NVIDIA Cumulus® Linux or can be bare metal, compatible with any ONIE-mounted OS.
- Additional software options include NVIDIA Air Infrastructure Simulation Platform and NVIDIA NetQ™ for real-time visibility, troubleshooting, and validation of networks.
- Designed for high availability with features like 1+1 hot-swappable power supplies and N+1 hot-swappable fans, EVPN multi-homing, multi-chassis link aggregation, and 256-way equal-cost multi-path routing.
- Centralizes visibility and provides granular, event-triggered information about infrastructure issues.
- Supports advanced network virtualization without compromising performance or scale.
- Enables accelerated generative AI performance by 1.7x compared to traditional Ethernet fabrics as part of the Spectrum-X networking platform.
- Designed to optimize cloud performance and power various NVIDIA platforms, including NVIDIA Spectrum™-X networking platform, NVIDIA EGX™, NVIDIA DGX™, NVIDIA HGX™, NVIDIA OVX™, and AI software tools such as NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA LaunchPad.
- Suitable for data centers of all sizes, serving cloud-scale infrastructures with advanced cloud multi-tenancy and zero-trust security.
Ordering information for the SN5400 Series
| SKU | Description |
| 920-9N42C-00RB-7N0 | NVIDIA Spectrum-4-based 400GbE 2U open Ethernet switch with ONIE and NOS authentication, 64x QSFP56-DD ports and 2x SFP28 ports, 2x power supplies (AC), x86 CPU, secure boot, standard depth, connector-to-power airflow, tool-less rail kit |
| 920-9N42C-00RB-5N0 | NVIDIA Spectrum-4-based 400GbE 2U open Ethernet switch with ONIE, 64x QSFP-DD ports and 2x SFP28 ports, 2x power supplies (AC), x86 CPU, secure boot capable, standard depth, connector-to-power airflow, tool-less rail kit |
| 920-9N42C-00RB-7C0 | NVIDIA Spectrum-4-based 400GbE 2U open Ethernet switch with Cumulus Linux authentication, 64x QSFP56-DD ports and 2x SFP28 ports, 2x power supplies (AC), x86 CPU, secure boot, standard depth, connector-to-power airflow, tool-less rail kit |