GE GBX465 Data Sheet
GE
Intelligent Platforms
NETernity
™
GBX460
Rugged 6U OpenVPX™Fully Managed Layer 2/3 10 GigE Switch Module
Features
• 6U OpenVPX™Compliant: (VITA 65.0)
• VITA 48 (REDI)
• VITA 46.0-2007 (VPX Baseline Standard)
• Switch Profile: MOD6-SWH-16U20F-12.4.2-5
Data Plane: 20 10GBase-KX4 ports
Control Plane: 16 1000Base-KX ports
(interoperates with 1000Base-BX)
• Optional Profile: MOD6-SWH-24F-12.4.3-5
Data Plane: 24 x 10GE Ports
• Non-Blocking
• Front I/O: Up to two 10GigE Fiber Ports
available for slot profile SLT6-SWH16U20F-10.4.2
• Full wire-speed 10GE Performance
• Ruggedization Build Levels:
– Level 1, 2 & 3 Air Cooled
– Level 4 & 5 Conduction Cooled
– Option to support VITA 48.5 Air Flow
Through
• RoHS 2002/95/EC Compliant
• Based on high-performance Low Latency,
Ethernet switch fabric from Intel Fulcrum
• Option for Unmanaged operation
• Hardware enabled IPv6 and IPv4 support
• OpenWareSwitch Management environment
• Multi-cast Support: IGMP Snooping
Querier and MLD Snooping Querier
• Allows up to 4096 VLANS
• L-3 Protocol supportincluding OSPF and RIP
NETernity™GBX460 is the world’sfirst rugged
6U OpenVPX Fully Managed Layer 2/3 10
Gigabit Ethernet switch module supporting
low latency, high throughput interprocessor
communication (IPC) aimed at deployed
defense and aerospace applications.
GBX460 delivers full wire-speed 10Gigabit
Ethernet switching that can be fully
managed via our OpenWare software.
Proven, high performance architecture and
a multilayer switching fabric provides a
rich feature set, broad functionality, scalability, and product life longevity. Based on
a PowerPC management processor and a
leading high performance switch fabric, the
GBX460 has integrated Layer-2/3 switching
capabilities including support for IPv6 as
well as the ability to support higher Layer
4-7 functionality when required.
IPv6 brings improved security, reliability
and flexibility, enhanced support for mobile
computing devices, and larger address
space for global reach and scalability to
applications. In the near future, support for
IPv6 will be required for Military and Defense
customers, and because this switch also
supports IPv4 it offers a path forward which
protects existing investments.
GBX460 delivers any node to any node
connectivity between multiple computer
nodes to support the very latest (HPC)
Intel and NVIDIA GPGPU high performance
computing cluster architectures. Typical
applications include sensor and image
processing for a range of intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR)
platforms including radar and communications processing.
Designed to support GE Intelligent Platforms
market leading, rugged 6U OpenVPX
single board computers (SBCs) and GPGPU
processors,the GBX460 harnesses the
speed and flexibility of the very latest
10GigE switch fabric from Intel Fulcrum.
This innovative solution supports nonblocking, low latency data transfers across
a multiprocessing cluster at up to full wire
speed enabling new levels of performance
for the most demanding ISR applications.
GE’s latest 6U OpenVPX products are available in air and conduction cooled variants
providing a clear choice for size, weight
and
power (SWaP) sensitive HPC applications. In addition, it has the flexibility to
support high speed sensor I/O over 10GigE
and system scaling from one to many
compute nodes on airborne, ground vehicle
and naval platforms to meet the most
demanding mission profiles.
The extremely fast boot time for the
GBX460 enables it to meet the needs of
customer applications that require their
network to be passing traffic in the shortest
period of time after power-on.
• Supports both Layer-2 (L2) and Layer 3 (L3)
Messages may also be routed based
packet switching. Packets are categorized
on the type of service so that critical
by the MAC addresses for L2 switching
messages can transverse the most reli-
and by IP addresses for L3 switching.
able routes.
• Supports both IPv4 and IPv6 switching
• RIP (Routing Information Protocol), an
and routing.
easy- to-implement, dynamic routing
•
• Virtual LANs (VLANs) (IEEE 802.1Q)
protocol, allows routers to exchange
defines a forwarding (switching) domain;
information for computing routes through
supports up to 4096 VLANs.
networks. Routing tables are used to store
• Packet filtering to prevent forwarding of
destination and metric pairs.
certain packets; filtering capabilities are
• BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), a reliable
available in Layers 2 - 4.
and scaleable protocol used as an external
• QoS prioritization (IEEE 802.1Q) permits
gateway protocol, to create and maintain
classifying packet priorities which is
beneficial in delay-sensitive applications.
routes between different networks.
NETernity™GBX460
NETernity GBX460 is a High Performance
Layer 2/3+ Ethernet embedded switch with
extensive management capabilities and
provides hardware speed switching of L-2
and L-3 frames including IPv6 switching
and routing. Optionally, the twenty 10GigE
and sixteen 1GigE version of the GBX460
can support up to two 10Gigabit Ethernet
Fiber connections on the front panel. Per
the OpenVPX standard, the 10 Gigabit
Ethernet connections support the data
plane and the sixteen 1Gigabit Ethernet
connections support the control plane. The
GBX460 is also available in a configuration
supporting twenty four 10Gigabit Ethernet
ports routed to the VPX Switch Fabric ports.
Designed to meet the needs of a wide
range of challenging applications in military
systems, the 6U VPX form factor GBX460
facilitates communications at high speed
within the chassis or for external networks
via its 10Gigabit Ethernet ports. The
GBX460’s high speed network capability is
ideal for applications such as situational
awareness, imaging, and sensor data.
Switch Fabric and
OpenWare Protocol Features
• Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad) links a
group of physical ports creating a single
logical port to provide higher bandwidth
and increase redundancy between
switches. The fabric is capable of full wire
speed switching, allowing a maximum
aggregate throughput that is the sum of
all aggregated ports.
• Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
(IEEE 802.1Q) enables automatic and
rapid determination of an optimal loopfree topology from an arbitrary network
of enabled switches with duplicate and
redundant connections; supports rapid
reconfiguration in the event of a link or
switch failure; backward compatible with
RSTP and STP.
• Broadcast storm control screens excessive
traffic and controls the rate limit for each
port and prevents flooding in the network.
• IPv4 and IPv6 multicast traffic forwarding
is controlled by the configuration of
multicast forwarding tables. The switch
snoops IGMP and MLD messages
which allow dynamic adjustment of the
forwarding tables, ensuring more efficient bandwidth use.
• Port Mirroring eases debug and packet
pattern analysis. This is a method which
allows traffic generated on one or more
ports to be mirrored to another port.
Refer to the OpenWare data sheet for more
detailed information.
L-3 IP Routing Protocols
• OpenWare provides support for IPv4 and
IPv6 routing protocols.
• OSPF (Open Shortest Path First), a flexible link state protocol, tests the state
of links and transmits that information
throughout the system to establish the
shortest path to the destination. This
protocol also load balances by distributing traffic equally among routes.
OpenWare Switch
Management Environment
OpenWare™is available exclusively on
selected NETernity fully-managed Layer2/3 Ethernet switches. Comprehensive and
powerful, this switch management
environment provides integrated management services including configuration,
monitoring, switching control, addressing,
routing and all supported protocols.
Configuration and monitoring functions
are accessible from a serial console or via
a network. Supported access methods
include Telnet, SSH and SNMP.
OpenWare features:
• IPv6 support for improved security, reliability and flexibility, enhanced support
for mobile computing devices, and
larger address space for global reach
and scalability. IPv4 is also supported
offering a path forward which protects
existing investments.
• Easy deployment and management
that results from the wide range of
protocols supported. These protocols
are defined by RFCs, and cover a range
of operations: Switch, VLANs, Aggregation, Multicast, Filtering, Routing, QoS,
and Management, NETernity switches
with OpenWare offer broad functionality
and support communications within
the chassis as well as supporting the
network outside of the chassis.
• MSTP, the latest version of the Spanning
Tree protocol, allows use of the latest
technology to create efficient , loop-free
networks by combining multiple VLANs.
In the event of link or switch failure, the
network can be rapidly reconfigured
minimizing down time. MSTP is backward
compatible with RSTP and STP.
• Highly efficient bandwidth utilization.
Multicast with IGMP Snooping Querier
and MLD Snooping Querier for IPv6
operation ensures that frames are only
forwarded on those ports having nodes
that have joined the group.
OpenWare makes use of Linux®based
software to allow faster implementation
and easy updates to firmware as part of
standard releases or when customization is required. Customizations may be
leveraged across all NETernity/OpenWare
platforms. Standard Linux commands
may be used as well as open source
protocol and routing capabilities.
OpenWare allows for a number of ways
to manage the switch via serial console,
Telnet, SSH, Web Interface or SNMP.
• Using a combination of open source
protocol software and OpenWare allows
us in certain instances to provide full software source to customers. Additionally,
full control over the software environments permits customization for specific
requirements such as customer-specific
handling of failover conditions.
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