DriveNets AI Fabric
DriveNets AI fabric is a full-stack networking solution that includes hardware, software, and services supporting any AI infrastructure networking use case.




Highest performance AI Networking

Hardware

  • DriveNets Fabric-Scheduled Ethernet switches: 9300F, 5300R and 5301R
  • DriveNets Endpoint-Scheduled Ethernet switches: 2500S, 2600SL, 2601S
  • Network Interface Cards (NICs): a choice of NICs from industry leading vendors including AMD and Broadcom with performance optimization software

Use-cases

  • Scale-up networking: for AMD-based infrastructure
  • Scale-out networking: scheduled-Ethernet solutions, with fabric-scheduling or endpoint-scheduling technologies

Software

  • DNOS and DN-SONiC: Network operating systems
  • DriveNets AI Cluster Orchestrator: an orchestration and management suite with provisioning, benchmarking and ongoing operations’ engines

Services

  • DriveNets Infrastructure Services (DIS): full ownership of AI cluster lifecycle management – from design to first token, 24/7 Maintenance & support, Kernel/ROCm optimization, NBI integration, Software services – E2E performance optimization

 
 

Network Platforms

 

DriveNets 2500S

51.2 Tbps full duplex
64 x 800 GbE QSFP
Broadcom Tomahawk 5
Hardware Specifications
Interfaces
Network 64 × 800 GbE OSFP800
Inband Mgmt. 2 x 25G SFP28
OOB Mgmt. 1x IG RJ45
Performance
Switching Capacity 51.2 Tbps
Physical
ASIC Broadcom Tomahawk 5
Memory 16GB x 2 with ECC (SO-DIMM) DDR4
Chassis 2RU
Typical / Max (with optics) 1100W / 1623W

 
 

 

DriveNets 2600SL

102.4Tbps full duplex
64 x 1600 GbE OSFP224
Broadcom Tomahawk 6
Liquid cooled
Hardware Specifications
Interfaces
Network 64 x 1600 GbE OSFP224
Inband Mgmt. 2 x 50G SFP56
OOB Mgmt. 1x IG RJ45
Performance
Switching Capacity 102.4 Tbps
HBM Deep Buffer 16GB
Physical
ASIC Broadcom Tomahawk6
Memory 2 x 32GB DDR4 2666 RDIMM/SODIMM w/ECC
Chassis 2RU
Typical 4000W

 

DriveNets 2601S

102.4Tbps full duplex<
64 X 1600 GbE OSFP224
Broadcom Tomahawk 6
Air cooled
Hardware Specifications
Interfaces
Network 64 x 1600G OSFP
Inband Mgmt. 2 x 50G SFP56
OOB Mgmt. 1x IG RJ45
Performance
Switching Capacity 102.4 Tbps
Physical
ASIC Broadcom Tomahawk 6
Memory 2 x 32GB DDR4 2666 RDIMM/SODIMM w/ECC
Chassis 2RU
Typical 400W
   

 

 

DriveNets 5300R

30.4Tbps full duplex
18x800G OSFP network interface ports
20x800G OSFP fabric interface ports
Broadcom Jericho3-based
Hardware Specifications
Interfaces
Network 18 x 800G OSFP
Fabric 20 × 800G OSFP
Inband Mgmt. 2 x 25G SFP28
OOB Mgmt. 2 x 10G SFP, 1x IG RJ45
Performance
Switching Capacity 30.4 Tbps
HBM Deep Buffer 16GB
Physical
ASIC Broadcom Jericho3
Memory 64GB DDR4 (2 x 32GB) with ECC
Chassis 2RU
Typical / Max (with optics) 782W / 1615W (14.5W port)

 

DriveNets 9300F

102.4Tbps full-duplex
128 x 800G OSFP fabric interface ports
Cell-based switching
Broadcom Ramon3-based
Hardware Specifications
Interfaces
Network 128 × 800G OSFP
Inband Mgmt. 2 x 25G SFP28
OOB Mgmt. 2 x 10G SFP, 1x IG RJ45
Performance
Switching Capacity 102.4 Tbps
Physical
ASIC 2x Broadcom Ramon3
Memory 32GB DDR4 SODIMM
Chassis 6RU
Typical / Max (with optics) 1135W / 4352W (14.5W port)

Use Cases

DriveNets AI Fabric includes a solution for any part of the networking fabric, including:

  • Scale-up networking – An Ethernet based (ESUN-SUE/T) solution for rack-scale scale up networking. Open-standard, low latency and high efficiency solution for AMD-based architectures.
  • Scale-out networking – Fabric-scheduled Ethernet: A cell-based fabric with standard Ethernet connectivity to endpoint ensures the highest performance networking for any GPU and any NIC.
  • Scale-out networking – Endpoint-scheduled Ethernet: Standard Ethernet Clos architecture with endpoint scheduling performed in the NIC, with multiple NIC providers supported (AMD, Broadcom) and standard-based packet spraying (Ultra-Ethernet)
  • Scale-across – A connectivity solution for back-end networking across multiple datacenters, suitable for distances of up to 100km.
  • Front-end and storage networking – a unified fabric for storage network and front-end connectivity

Software stack

DriveNets provides an end-to-end software stack, including:
DNOS: Network operating-system that runs on multiple hardware options
AI Cluster Orchestrator: a lifecycle orchestration system with engines tailored for:

  • Provisioning: a bring-up, configuration and scaling tool that automatically discovers and provisions the entire AI infrastructure, including servers, NICs, and network components, ensuring complete visibility and seamless deployment of an optimized reference architecture.
  • Benchmarking: an end-to-end cluster performance validation engine that streamlines cluster benchmarking by executing RDMA, RCCL/NCCL, and representative AI workloads to ensure the environment operates at peak performance
  • Ongoing management: a day-n cluster manager

DriveNets Infrastructure Services (DIS)

End-to-end professional services for any GPU fabric deployment, including:
Bring up services

  • Architecture design and validation
  • Deployment and integration of AMD GPU
  • Performance optimization and troubleshooting
  • Knowledge transfer and enablement of the customer’s internal teams

Software services

  • Kernel optimization
  • Collectives’ optimization
  • ROCm development and enablement
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