The NVIDIA Spectrum Ethernet Platform
Explore innovative, efficient Ethernet solutions for accelerated AI and cloud.
Complete Ethernet Solutions, From Host to Switch
With NVIDIA Spectrum™ experience industry-leading Ethernet performance, availability, and ease of use across a wide range of applications—including cloud computing, data storage, AI, and more. The NVIDIA Spectrum™ Ethernet is an end-to-end platform that includes switches, DPUs, SmartNICs, cables, transceivers and networking software.
The new NVIDIA Spectrum-X Networking Platform, featuring Spectrum-4 switches and BlueField®-3 DPUs, is the world’s first Ethernet fabric built for AI, accelerating generative AI performance.
Networking Platform
Designed to accelerate AI performance and power efficiency 1.7X over traditional Ethernet.
Spectrum Switch Systems
The NVIDIA Spectrum Ethernet switch family includes a comprehensive switch and software portfolio spanning 1GbE to 800GbE. NVIDIA Spectrum switches are ideal for both building AI fabrics connecting NVIDIA GPUs and connecting end-to-end cloud data center networks. Combining Spectrum switches with the NVIDIA Cumulus® Linux, NVIDIA Pure SONiC as well as the NVIDIA NetQ™ validation toolset and NVIDIA Air simulation platform, delivers the performance and features that every data center needs.
BlueField DPUs
The NVIDIA BlueField DPU ignites unprecedented innovation for modern data centers, delivering a broad range of advanced networking, storage, and security services for complex compute and AI workloads, virtual machines (VMs), containers, and bare-metal servers in enterprise and cloud. By combining the industry-leading NVIDIA ConnectX® network adapter with an array of Arm® cores, BlueField offers purpose-built hardware acceleration engines with full programmability through NVIDIA DOCA™.
ConnectX SmartNICs
The industry-leading ConnectX family of intelligent network adapters offers the broadest and most advanced hardware acceleration engines. Running any workload at any scale, ConnectX enables the highest ROI and lowest TCO for cloud data centers, enterprise environments, and SDN and network functions virtualization (NFV) for telecommunications companies.
LinkX Ethernet Cables and Transceivers
NVIDIA LinkX® cables and transceivers are designed to maximize the performance of high-performance computing networks, delivering high bandwidth, low latency, and highly reliable connections between Ethernet elements.
Improved AI Cloud Performance
NVIDIA Spectrum-X enhances performance and power efficiency by 1.7X, accelerating the processing, analysis, and execution of AI workloads and, in turn, the development and deployment of AI solutions.
Adaptive Routing Performance
Key Features and Benefits
Spectrum-X is a revolutionary solution for building multi-tenant, hyperscale AI clouds with Ethernet. With it, organizations can significantly improve the performance and power efficiency of AI clouds and gain higher predictability and consistency, resulting in faster time to market and a greater competitive edge.
Nearly Perfect Bandwidth at Scale
Extremely Low Latency
End-to-End Stack Optimization
Advanced RoCE Extensions for Scalable AI Communications
Deterministic Performance and Performance Isolation
Open Network Operating System: SONiC and Cumulus
Accelerated Ethernet for Hyperscale
Powered by NVIDIA networking innovations, Spectrum-X is fully standards-based Ethernet with support for open Ethernet stacks (SONiC) at cloud scale.
Full-Stack Optimization
Spectrum-X is tuned and validated across the full stack of NVIDIA hardware and software, creating an unmatched Ethernet solution for AI clouds.
