Netris Supported Functionality & Platforms Matrix

Switch Fabric Management Functions

Function

Description

NVIDIA Cumulus

Dell SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore SONiC

Fabric Manager

Day0, Day1, and Day2 switch fabric operations.

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✔

May/2025

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Parallel Fabrics

Manage multiple isolated switch fabrics. (example: East-West and North-South)

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✔

May/2025

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Topology Manager

Design and operate the switch fabric.

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May/2025

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Maintenance Mode

Offload a network node for a maintenance.

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✔

May/2025

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IPAM

Manage IP subnets. Assign RBAC, multi-tenancy, and service-based rules and roles to IP address resources.

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May/2025

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Looking Glass

Lookup underlay and overlay routing info of any managed network node without SSH-ing.

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May/2025

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BGP Unnumbered

Any network topology with BGP unnumbered underlay

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May/2025

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BGP Numbered

Any network topology with BGP numbered underlay

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May/2025

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VXLAN/EVPN

VXLAN over BGP/EVPN switch fabric

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May/2025

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AI switch fabric

Optimizations for AI workloads. See AI functions section below.

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TBD

TBD

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Compute VXLAN/EVPN extension

Extend VXLAN/EVPN fabric into compute layer. See Compute integrations section below.

Coming Soon

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TBD

TBD

ZTP

Zero-touch provisioning of the NOS & Netris agent

Coming Soon

TBD

TBD

Coming Soon

Upgrade/Downgrade

Upgrade & Downgrade of Netris agent through the controller

Coming Soon

TBD

TBD

Coming Soon

Monitoring & Telemetry

Function

Description

NVIDIA Cumulus

Dell SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore SONiC

Monitoring: Switch Ports

Automatic monitoring of Link statuses, link utilization, laser signal levels, errors, packets.

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May/2025

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Monitoring: Resources

Automatic monitoring of CPU, RAM, Disk, and ASIC resources.

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May/2025

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Monitoring: Sensors

Automatic monitoring of temperature, fans, power supply statuses.

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May/2025

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Monitoring: System Processes

Automatic monitoring of critical system processes.

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May/2025

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Topology Validation

Detect wiring errors switch-to-switch & switch-to-SoftGate.

✔

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May/2025

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Server Wiring Validation

Detect wiring errors switch-to-server.

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May/2025

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NVIDIA NetQ integration

Activate NVIDIA NetQ Blueprint through Netris topology

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N/A

N/A

N/A

External Routing Functions

Function

Description

NVIDIA Cumulus

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

External BGP (SoftGate)

Terminate full routing table on SoftGate Gateway-server.

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May/2025

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External BGP (Switch)

Peer with external routers.

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May/2025

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BGP Route-Maps

Create chain of BGP rules.

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May/2025

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Static Routes

Define static routing rules.

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May/2025

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Cloud Networking Functions & Constructs

Function

Description

NVIDIA Cumulus

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

Isolated VPCs, VRFs. Overlapping IPs supported.

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May/2025

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V-Net (Subnet)

L3VPN VXLAN or L2VPN VXLAN with an anycast default Gateway, and built-in DHCP.

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May/2025

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Server Cluster (Profiling)

Create network constructs template, then apply it on groups of servers.

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May/2025

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Internet Gateway

Provide shared Internet access to V-Nets and VPC

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May/2025

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NAT Gateway

Provide shared DNAT, PAT, 1:1 NAT to multiple V-Nets and multiple VPCs

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May/2025

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L4 Load Balancer

Provide on-demand elastic load balancer service to hosts in multiple V-Nets and multiple VPCs

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May/2025

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Subnet Global Routing

Enable Internet Routing between a custom VPC and a System VPC on a per-subnet basis. SoftGate HS only

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May/2025

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VPC Peering

Enable peering (route-leaking) between VPCs.

Mar/2025

May/2025

May/2025

Mar/2025

SiteMesh

Wireguard-based Site-to-Site VPN between multiple regions/sites. (single VPC)

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May/2025

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Overlay Network Functions

Function

Description

NVIDIA Cumulus

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

L2VPN VXLAN VLAN Aware

L2VPN VXLAN with VLAN tagged or untagged termination on switch port.

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May/2025

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L2VPN VXLAN VLAN Unaware

L2VPN VXLAN with VLAN tagged or untagged termination on switch port supporting different VLAN IDs on different end points.

N/A

N/A

May/2025

N/A

L3VPN VXLAN

L3VPN VXLAN, Commonly used in high performance computing, such as AI clusters.

✔

TBD

TBD

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EVPN-MH / VXLAN-ESI

EVPN MultiHoming based on VXLAN and ESI for automatic Active-Active server network multihoming

✔

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May/2025

TBD

LACP

Link Aggregation or Active-Standby server multihoming.

✔

✔

May/2025

TBD

MC-LAG

Traditional MC-LAG-based server multihoming

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TBD

TBD

TBD

AI Specific Functions

Function

Description

NVIDIA Cumulus

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

Spectrum-X

Switch-fabric management and automation optimized for NVIDIA Spectrum-X architecture

✔

N/A

N/A

N/A

Rail-optimized topology

Switch-fabric management and automation optimized for rail-optimized fabrics

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✔

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QoS for RoCE

Enable QoS for RoCE based on best practices

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TBD

TBD

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RoCE Adaptive Routing

Enable RoCE adaptive routing based on best practices

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TBD

TBD

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RoCE Congestion Control

Enable automatic congestion control for RoCE workloads

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N/A

N/A

N/A

RoCE and QoS fine tuning

Allow fine tuning of QoS and other RoCE specific parameters

N/A

TBD

TBD

Mar/2025

DPU/Host zero-touch configuration

Automatically configure IP addresses, routing, RoCE and other DPU/SuperNIC specific configuration on GPU servers

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TBD

TBD

TBD

Compute Platform Integrations

Function

Description

NVIDIA Cumulus

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

Kubernetes Operator

Automatically serve Kubernetes LoadBalancer Type service

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✔

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Apache Cloud Stack

Netris VXLAN isolation & VR replacement

Mar/2025

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TBD

TBD

VMware VSphere

Automatically provision VSphere defined VLANs in VXLAN/EVPN switch fabric

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Security

Function

Description

NVIDIA Cumulus

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

Network ACLs

Centralized Network Access Control Lists.

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May/2025

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Managed Device Profiling

Managed switch & SoftGate protection from unwanted access, push administrative and system settings (NTP, DNS, timezone, etc.)

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May/2025

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Audit Logs

Log all controller access and changes.

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May/2025

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Netris Controller Administration

Function

Description

Globally

Role Based Access Control

Who can view and edit which aspects of the system.

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Tenant RBAC

Network resource delegation to tenants.

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Active/Standby

Daily backup of Netris Controller on a Standby node

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HA Controller

3-node, HA Netris Controller cluster

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Air Gapped setup

Run Netris controller in Air Gapped environment and host switch & SoftGate software for local install.

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Management Interfaces

Function

Description

Globally

Web Console

Manage through intuitive web interface.

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RestAPI

Integrate your other systems or your customer-facing portal with Netris consuming RestAPIs.

✔

IaC: Terraform

Manage your infrastructure as a code using Terraform.

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Hypervisor/Worker node specific functionality

Function

Description

Kubernetes

Vmware

Apache Cloud Stack

OpenStack

Harvester

Proxmox

L4 Load Balancer

Layer-4 container or vm/server load balancer with health checks.

✔ (native & automatic)

✔ (need to specify backend IPs)

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✔ (need to specify backend IPs)

✔ (need to specify backend IPs)

✔ (need to specify backend IPs)

VPC to internal routing peering

Automatically route internal networks into VPC routing table (allow containers communicate with VMs).

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N/A

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TBD

TBD

TBD

Automatic VXLAN/VLAN

Automatically provision VXLAN/VLAN on switch fabric and include appropriate switch ports when virtual network is created in the hypervisor.

TBD

✔

✔

TBD

TBD

TBD

HBN Host-based networking.

Terminate VTEPs on the hypervisor host. Scale beyond VLAN limits

Dec/2024

TBD

✔

TBD

TBD

TBD

HBN on DPU

Host-based networking. Terminate VTEPs on the hypervisor host DPU. Scale beyond VLAN limits with accelerated performance

2025

TBD

2025

2025

TBD

TBD

SoftGate Data Plane Variations

SoftGate is Netris data plane for Internet Gateway, NAT Gateway, Network Access Control, Elastic Load Balancer, and Site-to-Site VPN functions.

Flavor

Common Use Case

Availability

Tenancy/VPC

Handoff

Packet Forwarding

HA & Scalability

Ethernet Environment

NIC

CPU

RAM

Disk

Performance (w/ 100 NAT rules)

SoftGate

Bare metal cloud site, Edge site, Remote office.

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Single

VLAN

Linux w/ Netris optimizations

Active/Standby - 2 nodes

Dot1q: Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP, pre-configured VLAN-range on any Ethernet switches.

Any

Intel or AMD

16-64GB

300GB

Dual Gold 6336Y (48c x 2.3GHz) - 11Gbps / 1.8Mpps

SoftGate PRO

Private Cloud, Public Cloud Border Gateway, Enterprise Cloud, Vmware NSX alternative.

✔

Single

VLAN

Netris DPDK

Active/Standby - 2 nodes

Netris Switch-Fabric

Nvidia Connect-X 5, 6 100Gbe

Intel XEON (required for DPDK)

128GB

300GB

Intel XEON Platinum 20+ cores - 100Gbps / 25Mpps

SoftGate HS (HyperScale)

Scalable GPU & CPU Cloud Services Provider.

✔

Multi

VXLAN

Linux w/ Netris optimizations

Active/Active - Horizontally scalable

Netris Switch-Fabric

Any OK. Nvidia Connect-X is recommended

Intel or AMD

128-256GB

300GB

Dual Platinum 8352Y (64c x 2.2GHz) - 22Gbps / 3.5 Mpps

SoftGate HS PRO

Scalable GPU & CPU Cloud Services Provider.

2025/Q2

Multi

VXLAN

Netris XDP

Active/Active - Horizontally scalable

Netris Switch-Fabric

Nvidia Connect-X 5, 6, 7

Intel, AMD (TBD)

256GB+

300GB

TBD

Netris and NOS versions compatibility matrix

Netris Version

Switch & OS

Bare Metal Cloud

SoftGate OS

Availability

4.4.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.11, Dell SONiC 4.4, EdgeCore SONiC 202211-331

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate HS: Ubuntu 24.04, SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04

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4.3.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.9, Dell SONiC 4.1, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04 (non-pro)

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4.2.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, Dell SONiC 4.1, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04

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4.1.1

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04

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4.0.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04

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3.5.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04

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3.4.1

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04

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