Network Services Switching Platform
The NXP® Network Services Switching Platform is an innovative switching and routing platform that addresses the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) demands of service provider, enterprise and data center networks.
- The platform is a cost and power optimized white box solution that integrates hardware and software, delivering high performance forwarding and extensible network services
- Coupling QorIQ® multicore processors with a standard switch ASSP device, the Network Services Switching Platform provides a flexible and compact solution that adds intelligence and programmable data paths to high performance switching
Software Details
Diagram
Features
High port count I/O in a 1U rack-mount design
- Supports 6 QSFP and 44 SFP+ modules
High Performance L2-L3 forwarding
- Widely accepted ASSP-based switch fabric for Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding
- 680 Gbit/s forwarding bandwidth with 10 Gbit/s and 40 Gbit/s ports
L4–L7 network services
- Software data path with performance optimization on NXP hardware accelerators
- IPSec VPN using NXP Open Network (ON) Switch software and QorIQ T4240 processor's crypto accelerator
- Policy-based routing
- Multitable and Multi-TTP support for scalable and versatile functionality
- NXP-defined OpenFlow extensions
Open standards based platform
- SDN / OpenFlow version 1.3 compliant data plane software and control plane software
- Integration with Linux applications such as StrongSWAN and Quagga on the control plane.
- ONIE support
- Open IPMI-compliant hardware management function
Extensible and Future-proofed
- Support for adding new Virtual Network Functions
- Performance-optimized embedded SDN control plane software with flexibility to add new SDN applications.
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Extensible to add commercial-grade software bundled with hardware for SDN and NFV applications
- Data center, service provider, and campus environments., e.g. firewall, server load balancing
- Telecom environments, e.g. evolved packet core functions- IPSec and QoS