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NVIDIA Spectrum Switches

NVIDIA Spectrum Switches
Formerly Mellanox Switches

Overview

What is NVIDIA Spectrum Switches?

NVIDIA® Spectrum®-3 based SN4000 is an open ethernet switch that combines cloud features with performance to support modern scale-out distributed data center applications. With support for all speeds 1GbE through 400GbE, SN4000 is ideal for building large layer-2, layer-3, and…

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Seamless integration and great vendor support

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 1, 2021
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NVIDIA Mellanox Spectrum switches acting as Top of Rack (TOR) switches in the data center.
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Engineer
NVIDIA Spectrum Switches1 year of experience

Cost-effective, open and easy high performance networking!

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 3, 2018
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Mellanox Switches are used in our company as network backbone switches in combination with Cumulus OS across the complete organization. Also as a high-performance Networking p...
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Program Manager
NVIDIA Spectrum Switches3 years of experience
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What is NVIDIA Spectrum Switches?

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Seamless integration and great vendor support

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 01, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
NVIDIA Spectrum Switches
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
NVIDIA Mellanox Spectrum switches acting as Top of Rack (TOR) switches in the data center.
Pros and Cons
  • Supports Cumulus Linux as well as SONic
  • Wide variety of modern network operating system choices
  • Based on Open Ethernet platform
  • low Capex
Likelihood to Recommend
Works well if you use core networking functionality

Does not work well in a multi-vendor setup.
Most Important Features
  • Open Ethernet based protocols and platform
  • Support Cumulus Operating System
  • Lower cost than Cisco or Juniper switches
Return on Investment
  • Overall seamless integration into the datacenter
  • Better cost per port so higher ROI
Alternatives Considered
Broadcom is quicker is rolling out newer chipset and hardware. But NVIDIA Mellanox has better system integration due to its purchase of Cumulus OS.

Cost-effective, open and easy high performance networking!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 03, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
NVIDIA Spectrum Switches
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Mellanox Switches are used in our company as network backbone switches in combination with Cumulus OS across the complete organization. Also as a high-performance Networking platform for our Hyperconverged Infrastructure based on Windows Server 2016. In Addition, we deployed Mellanox Switches at our customers especially as high-performance infrastructure for HCI
Pros and Cons
  • open platform for use with e.g. Cumulus OS
  • cost effective
  • excellent support
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited:
HCI Infrastructure as a high-performance platform for storage traffic
TOR or Network Backbone

Less appropriate:
Client Access switches
Return on Investment
  • great possiblitiy for us to consult our customers in sizing and deployment of the switches
Alternatives Considered
Mellanox have more competitive pricing. Mellanox is an open System which Supports Cumulus OS
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