Engineering Architecture Brief

NVIDIA Spectrum Ethernet Switch Systems are a family of open, standards-based Ethernet switches designed to accelerate AI, cloud, and enterprise networking. Powered by NVIDIA Spectrum ASIC technology, these switches deliver predictable low latency, high bandwidth, advanced congestion control, adaptive routing, and deep network visibility. Supporting network operating systems such as NVIDIA Cumulus Linux and Pure SONiC, Spectrum switches provide flexible deployment for leaf-spine architectures, AI factories, software-defined storage, and hyperscale cloud infrastructures while enabling high-performance RoCE networking and scalable GPU clusters.

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NVIDIA Spectrum Ethernet Switch Systems

High-performance Ethernet switch systems engineered for AI, cloud computing, enterprise data centers, and hyperscale networking with ultra-low latency and advanced telemetry.

System Metrics Table

Adaptive Routing Hardware Accelerated

Architecture NVIDIA Spectrum ASIC

Congestion Control Advanced AI-Optimized Congestion Management

Deployment Leaf-Spine Data Centers, AI Factories, Cloud Infrastructure

Form Factor 1U and High-Density Data Center Switch Platforms

Latency Ultra-Low Deterministic Latency

Management Open Network Operating System Ecosystem

Maximum Port Speed Up to 800GbE

Network Standard Open Standards Ethernet

Operating Systems NVIDIA Cumulus Linux and Pure SONiC

Packet Buffer Fully Shared Packet Buffer Architecture

Platform Type Enterprise Ethernet Switch System

Primary Workload Artificial Intelligence, HPC, Cloud Computing, Software-Defined Storage

RDMA Support RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet)

Scalability Supports Large-Scale Multi-Tenant Data Center Fabrics

Switching Capacity Up to 102.4 Tb/s

Telemetry NVIDIA NetQ and What Just Happened (WJH)

Virtualization VXLAN, EVPN, MPLS, IPv6

Visibility Real-Time Network Analytics and Telemetry