SSE-T8196 - 800G Ethernet Switch
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Supermicro SSE-T8196 800G/400G Ethernet Switch

Supermicro introducing SSE-T8196, a high-density port of both 800G and 400G in one SKU to be the suitable companion with other product offerings such as SSE-T8164 and SSE-8032 series switches. At the heart of ultra-high-performance applications like hyper-scale cloud computing and AI/ML cluster lies the pivotal role of 800G and 400 Gigabit Ethernet. With advancements in today's datacenter deployments with high capacity and large number of NIC and GPU clusters become feasible, necessitating high bandwidth and low latency, SSE-T8196 is designed to meet the requirements with proficiency.

With a remarkable throughput of up to 51.2Tbps, Supermicro SSE-T8196 series stands out for offering the highest density of 400G and 800G in a 3RU formfactor. With proven layer 2 and layer 3 capabilities, advanced adaptive routing, dynamic load balancing, and support for end-to-end congestion control, these switches provide the ideal foundation for Large-scale enterprise backbone, AI/ML clusters and Cloud computing.

The SSE-T8196 series presents a diverse range of port speeds and densities, supporting 50G, 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G, facilitating consistent network architectures that seamlessly scale from small, dedicated clusters to the requirements of expansive multi-tier networks.

SSE-T8196 comes with 64 port 400G QSFP112 downlinks and 32 port 800G OSFP uplinks in a 3RU chassis. Depending on the Datacenter cooling options, SSE-T8196 switches come in support with both air cooling and liquid cooling options along with forward and reverse airflow models. And the included rail kit facilitates rack-mounting installation.

With emerging Supermicro Enterprise SONiC OS support on SSE-T8196 switch provides greater flexibility to applications such as large-scale enterprises, AI/MI and high-performance cloud computing. Supermicro provides user friendly enhancements to the OS that suits to the various data center application and deployment.
Supermicro SSE-T8196 800G/400G Ethernet Switch
 
Operating System / NOS
The SSE-T8196 series comes with ONIE preloaded and require mandatory Supermicro Enterprise SONIC OS support SKU.
 
Supermicro SSE-T8196 Switch Benefit & Advantages
  • Target Use Cases
    • Data Center Core, Edge, ToR and DCI applications
  • Key Advantages
    • The most optimized ethernet solution with leading low latency for Datacenter, HPC, and AI industry.
    • Open Network OS supported system to maximize flexibility.
    • High performance 50G / 100G / 200G / 400G / 800G capable switching in HPC, AI, DC high bandwidth application.
    • High density, high efficiency, multi rate 800G/400G/200G/100G switching through either direct and/or breakout cables in ToR application access with server/storage data center environments.
    • Switch capacity with large buffers
    • Support AC PSU option with both air cooling and liquid cooling SKUs.


  • Key Switch Specs
    • Form Factor: 3RU
    • Switch Fabric Capacity: 51.2Tbps
    • 165MB memory packet buffer
    • Operating System: Supermicro Enterprise SONiC OS

 
Hardware Specifications
  • Physical Ports
    • 64 400G QSFP112 & 32 800G OSFP Ports
    • RJ45 console and OOB Ethernet management ports
    • 1x USB 2.0 Type A interface
    • 2x25G SFP28 ports
    • 1+1 hot swappable AC PSUs
    • 3+1 field replaceable fans


  • Onboard CPU Engine
    • Intel Xeon-D x86 CPU, 8C at 2.3GHz
    • 32GB DDR4
    • 128GB SSD


  • Data Forwarding
    • 51.2Tbps switching capacity
    • Non-Blocking, wire-speed


  • Power
    • 1+1 Hot-pluggable, load sharing, and redundant 3200W power supply
    • Input Voltage: 200-240VAC, 50/60Hz
    • or Input Voltage: 200-277VAC, 50/60Hz
    • Hot-pluggable, load sharing 1600W DC PSU, Input Voltage: -48 to -72 Vdc
    • Optics/Cables: Up to all ports 18W/port (F2R), 17W/port (R2F)
  • Physical and Environmental
    • 3RU, Mountable in 19” or 21” racks
    • Dimensions: (WxDxH) 438.4 x 650 x 87.4mm
    • Weight: 16kg
    • Forward and reverse airflow
    • Hot Swappable 3+1 redundant Fan Modules
    • Temperature: Operating 0C to 40C
    • Humidity: Operating: 5% to 95%
  • IEEE compliance
    • 802.1p QOS/COS
    • 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
    • 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol
    • 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP
    • 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
    • 802.3ba 100 Gigabit Ethernet
    • 802.3bs 400 and 200 Gigabit Ethernet
    • 802.3cm 400 Gigabit over multimode fiber
    • 802.1Qbb PFC 802.1Qaz ETS
    • 802.1X Network Access Control
    • 802.3x Flow Control
Safety and Compliance
  • Safety
    • EU:
      • IEC/EN 62368-1
      • North America: UL62368-1
      • CAN/CSA No. 62368-1
      • Taiwan (BSMI): CNS 15598-1


  • Electromagnetic Compatibility
    • EU:
      • EN 300 386
      • EN 55032
      • EN IEC 61000—3-2
      • EN 61000-3-3
      • EN 55035
      • BS EN 55032
      • BS EN IEC 61000—3-2
      • BS EN 61000-3-3
      • BS EN 55035
    • North America:
      • FCC 47 CFR Part 15 Subpart B, ICES- 003 Issue 7Subpart B, ICES-003 Issue 7
    • Australia / New Zealand:
      • AS/NZS CISPR 32
    • Taiwan (BSMI):
      • CNS 15936
    • Korea (KCC):
      • KS C 9832, KS C 9835
 
Software Features
  • System and Platform Infrastructure Features
    • Dynamic Port Breakout
    • DOM Information Display
    • System Locator LED Support (Beacon)
    • CMIS 4.0 Optics Support
    • Hardware Watchdog
    • CoPP (Control Plane Policing)
    • Transceiver Parameter Tuning
    • Third-Party Container Management
    • PDDF and PDK Framework
    • Interface Aliasing (IS-Standard and IS-Standard-Extended Interface Naming)
    • Kdump Support
    • Maintenance Mode
      • LACP Graceful Shut
      • BGP Graceful Shut
      • OSPFv2 Maximum Metrics
    • Multi-Instance Redis DB
    • Hardware Resource Allocation and Reservation
    • Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
    • Auto Negotiation and Link Training
    • Link Statistics Enhancements
    • Link-Down Reason Codes
    • Link Flap Error-Disable
    • Forwarding Plane Drop Counters
    • Time Zone Command Support
    • 2 x 50G Speed Support
    • Broadcom Debug Tool
    • Memory Histogram
    • System Ready for Services and Applications
    • Secure Boot Process and Reference Implementation
    • Syslog High Threshold notifications and clear for CPU/Temperature
    • Per Platform CoPP
    • Interface Beacon LED
    • ZTP Provisioning using a USB Drive
    • Flexible DPB
    • Support Option to Bind the Third Party Container to the Management VRF
    • Limiting CPU/Memory/Disk Usage for Third Party Containers
    • Patching Support in SONiC (Patch Host/Containers)
    • Option to Send Audit Log Messages to Syslog Server
    • Ability to Filter Logs based on Facility and Severity
    • Media AutoFEC for FEC Type automation


  • Layer 2 Features
    • VLAN Auto-state
    • Interface Hold-Down
    • LACP Graceful Shutdown
    • link Tracking
    • LACP Fast Rate and LACP Fallback
    • Static LAG
    • LLDP
    • UDLD
    • PVST and RPVST+
    • MSTP
    • DHCP snooping
    • Port Channel Min-Links configuration enhancement


  • Layer 3 Features
    • DHCP Relay Enhancements
      • Overlay Interfaces
      • DHCP Relay Source Interface Selection (e.g. loopback)
      • DHCP Relay over IPv6 Link-Local Interfaces with RFC5549 Routes
      • DHCP Relay Hop Count Configuration
      • DHCP Relay Over IPv4 Unnumbered Interfaces
      • DHCP Relay Option 82, Sub Option 151 VRF Name/ID Option
      • DHCP Relay Option 82, Sub Option 5 Link-Selection Option RFC3527
      • Support for Circuit-Id Formats
      • DHCP Relay Circuit-Id Option
      • DHCP Relay and DHCP snooping support on the same VLAN
    • Dynamic BGP Neighbor
    • IP Fabric over IPv6 underlay RFC5549
    • IP Helper
    • Route Leaking across VRFs including Management VRF
    • BGP Docker Warm Restart
    • Avoid Netlink for Handling IPv6 Link-Local Address
    • BFD Optimizations to Support 5x100msec Aggressive Timers in SW
    • IP SLA (ICMP and TCP tracker)
    • IPv4 Unnumbered Interfaces
    • RPVST+ over MC-LAG
    • RPVST+ Scaling to 3500 VLAN Ports
    • Symmetric Hashing
    • BFD IS-CLIs
    • BFD with VRF
    • VRF support for syslog
    • VRF support for SSH.in
    • VRRPv3, VRRP/VRRPv3 over VRF
    • Management VRF Hardening
    • OSPFv2
    • Multi-Site Data Center Interconnect (DCI)
    • RIB/FIB Consistency Checker
    • Next Hop Group (NHG) Support
    • RIF Counters for L3 Interfaces
    • BFD Profile
    • 1 Million Route Scale
    • Route Updates Performance Improvements
    • Drop Neighbor Entry to Protect CPU from Unknown IP Packets Hitting the CPU
    • CPU Offload for Neighbor Suppression
    • CPU Offload for Slowpath ARP Flooding
    • OSFPv2 GR
    • Router Advertisement
    • KLISH/REST/gNMI Support
      • CLI Commands for RA Retransmission Interval, RADv Disable
      • RFE-8106


  • ACL and Flow-Based Services
    • PBR Enhancements for Service Chaining
    • ACL-based CoPP
    • ACL DSCP Map/Remarking
    • ACL Rate Limiting
    • Control Plane ACL
    • Policy-based Routing (IPv4 and IPv6)
    • ACL-based Packet Replication
    • ACL Consistency Checker


  • Security Features
    • RADIUS and TACACS
    • RADIUS/TACACS Password Obfuscation
    • NTP Server and NTP Authentication
    • NTP Prefer Option
    • LDAP Integration
    • AAA Authorization support with TACACS+
  • Manageability Features
    • Industry Standard CLI (IS-CLI)
    • REST and gNMI Interfaces via OpenConfig YANG (OC-YANG)
    • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
    • RBAC and HAMd Enhancements
    • SNMP Configuration Traps and OIDs
    • gNMI Subscription Support for Limited YANG Paths (OnChange, Interval, Once, Poll, Target defined)
    • Bulking support in both REST(YANG patch) and gNMI
    • Query parameter for REST and filtering support for gNMI
    • Scalar encoding support for gNMI
    • Support to Read Service Tag via SNMP
    • SNMP Trap Enablement on Interface Instead of Global


  • Multicast Features / Enhancements
    • L3 Multicast with PIM operates on L3 interfaces only
    • IGMP
    • IGMP Snooping (v1, v2, v3)
    • IPv4 PIM-SSM Support


  • Debuggability / Serviceability features
    • In-memory Debug Logging
    • Audit Logging and Syslogs
    • Command to Return Interfaces to the Default Configuration
    • Port Mirroring on Port Channel and VLAN


  • Scalability improvements
    • L3 VLAN Scale to 4K
    • Host Table Resource Reservation for Local Hosts


  • QoS
    • DSCP Marking Preservation for
    • QoS Map Support for Remarking and SVI
    • Port and Priority Shaping


  • Telemetry and Instrumentation
    • sFlow on Management VRF
    • BST - Watermarks,
    • Port MAC Security
    • LLDP-MED


  • Warmboot
    • AI/ML Focused Features
      • RoCEv2
      • PFC
      • ECN
      • Enhanced DCQCN
      • Dynamic Load Balancing (DLB)
      • Packet Spraying
      • Enhanced Hashing and Load Balancing with 100mSec granularity
      • Rich Congestion and Load Balancing Telemetry
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SSE-T8196 - 800G Ethernet Switch

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