Netris Supported Functionality & Platforms Matrix

Switch Fabric Management Functions

Function

Description

Nvidia Spectrum

Dell SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore SONiC

Equinix Metal

PhoenixNAP

Fabric Manager

Day0, Day1, and Day2 switch fabric operations.

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

N/A

N/A

Parallel Fabrics

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

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

N/A

N/A

Topology Manager

Design and operate the switch fabric.

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

N/A

N/A

Maintenance Mode

Offload a network node for a maintenance.

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

✔

✔

IPAM

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

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

✔

✔

Looking Glass

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

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

✔

✔

Monitoring: Switch Ports

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

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

N/A

N/A

Monitoring: Resources

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

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

✔

✔

Monitoring: Sensors

Automatic monitoring of temperature, fans, power supply statuses.

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

N/A

N/A

Monitoring: System Processes

Automatic monitoring of critical system processes.

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

✔

✔

Topology Validation

Detect wiring errors.

✔

TBD

Nov/2024

Dec/2024

N/A

N/A

BGP Unnumbered

Any network topology with BGP unnumbered underlay

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

N/A

N/A

BGP Numbered

Any network topology with BGP numbered underlay

✔

TBD

Nov/2024

Dec/2024

N/A

N/A

External Routing Functions

Function

Description

Nvidia Spectrum

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

Equinix Metal

PhoenixNAP

External BGP (SoftGate)

Terminate full routing table on SoftGate Gateway-server.

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

✔

✔

External BGP (Switch)

Peer with external routers.

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

N/A

N/A

BGP Route-Maps

Create chain of BGP rules.

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

✔

✔

Static Routes

Define static routing rules.

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

✔

✔

Cloud Networking Functions & Constructs

Function

Description

Nvidia Spectrum

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

Equinix Metal

PhoenixNAP

VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

Isolated VPCs, VRFs. Overlapping IPs supported.

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

✔

✔

V-Net (Subnet)

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

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

✔

✔

Server Cluster (Profiling)

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

✔

TBD

Nov/2024

Dec/2024

TBD

TBD

Internet Gateway

Provide shared Internet access to V-Nets and VPC

✔

✔

Nov/2024

Dec/2024

✔ (single VPC)

✔ (single VPC)

NAT Gateway

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

✔

✔

Nov/2024

Dec/2024

✔ (single VPC)

✔ (single VPC)

L4 Load Balancer

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

✔

✔

Nov/2024

Dec/2024

✔ (single VPC)

✔ (single VPC)

SiteMesh

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

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

✔

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Overlay Network Features

Function

Description

Nvidia Spectrum

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

Equinix Metal

PhoenixNAP

L2VPN VXLAN VLAN Aware

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

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

N/A

N/A

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

Nov/2024

N/A

N/A

N/A

L3VPN VXLAN

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

✔

TBD

TBD

Dec/2024

N/A

N/A

EVPN-MH / VXLAN-ESI

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

✔

TBD

Nov/2024

N/A

N/A

N/A

LACP

Link Aggregation or Active-Standby server multihoming.

✔

✔

Nov/2024

Dec/2024

N/A

N/A

MC-LAG

Traditional MC-LAG-based server multihoming

✔

TBD

TBD

Dec/2024

N/A

N/A

AI Specific Functions

Function

Description

Nvidia Spectrum

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

Equinix Metal

PhoenixNAP

Spectrum-X

AI GPU cluster switch fabric operation for Nvidia Spectrum-X

✔

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Rail-optimized designs

Topology and best practices initialization module for rail-optimized fabrics

✔

N/A

N/A

Dec/2024

N/A

N/A

QoS for RoCE

Enable QoS for RoCE workloads

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N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

RoCE Adaptive Routing

Enable RoCE adaptive routing

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N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

RoCE Congestion Control

Enable automatic congestion control for RoCE workloads

✔

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

DPU/Host zero-touch configuration

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

✔

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Security

Function

Description

Nvidia Spectrum

Dell-SONiC

Arista EOS

EdgeCore-SONiC

Equinix Metal

PhoenixNAP

Network ACLs

Centralized Network Access Control Lists.

✔

✔

Nov/2024

Dec/2024

N/A

N/A

Managed Device Profiling

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

✔

✔

Nov/2024

Dec/2024

N/A

N/A

Audit Logs

Log all controller access and changes.

✔

✔

Nov/2024

✔

N/A

N/A

Administration

Function

Description

Globally

Role Based Access Control

Who can view and edit which aspects of the system.

✔

Multi-Tenancy

Network resource delegation to tenants.

✔

Management Interfaces

Function

Description

Globally

Web Console

Manage through intuitive web interface.

✔

RestAPI

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

✔

IaC: Terraform

Manage your infrastructure as a code using Terraform.

✔

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)

Dec/2024

✔ (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).

✔

N/A

Dec/2024

Dec/2024

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

✔

✔

Dec/2024

TBD

TBD

HBN Host-based networking.

Terminate VTEPs on the hypervisor host. Scale beyond VLAN limits

Dec/2024

TBD

Dec/2024

Dec/2024

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.

✔

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.

Sep/15/2024

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

Multi

VXLAN

Netris

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 5.9, Dell SONiC 4.1, EdgeCore SONiC 202211

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

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

Dec/2024

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)

✔

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

✔

4.1.1

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04

✔

4.0.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04

✔

3.5.0

Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3

Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC

SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04

✔

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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