In a 1U rack space, Asterfusion® ET3000A switch can provide up to 4*100GE interfaces and 24*10GE interfaces. Each 100 GE interface is of QSFP28 form factor and can be expanded to 4*10GE interfaces through break-out cables, and thus supports up to 40*10GE interfaces.

The network protocol processor in the Asterfusion® ET3000A Intelligent Service Processing Unit can carry out functions such as packet parsing, SSL encryption and decryption at high-speed. It can also provide high-performance processing for various users’ network application deployments and meet the increasing traffic demand and diversified applications.

With the general-purpose ARM multi-core processor inside the Asterfusion® ET3000A Intelligent Service Processing Unit, developers can deploy almost all network applications such as OVS, VPP and NGINX, into Asterfusion® ET3000A switch. Coupled with container and virtualization technologies, Asterfusion® ET3000A switch can easily support the porting of the various applications running on x86-based architecture onto the ARM architecture, so it can effectively meet customers’ needs for innovations in server resource visibility, edge computing, network function offloads, etc in the era of cloud computing.