WILDSTAR 6B10 6U OpenVPX InfiniBand Switch – WP6B10
WILDSTAR 6B10 6U OpenVPX InfiniBand Switch is a rugged 6U board that provides switching between backplane slots of multiple channels of 100Gb EDR Infiniband. It also has front panel I/O which can be used to connect the system to external data sources.
This high-performance Switch is readily integrated into a vendor-neutral 6U VPX system, or deployed within Annapolis' proven WILD100 EcoSystem for 6U OpenVPX.

This next-generation 6U Switch supports up to 27 SDR/DDR/QDR/FDR/EDR InfiniBand ports with industry-leading, true cut-through latency.
It supports 1/10/25/40/100Gb Ethernet, with 7 optional 40/100GbE optical interfaces to VITA 66 and 4 optional 40/100GbE optical interfaces to the front panel.
The rugged board is available in industrial temperature grades, via air, conduction or liquid cooling.
It is VITA 65-compliant, and aligns with the SOSA™ Technical Standard.
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General Features
- Separate Data and Control plane switches and control processors
- Developed in alignment with the SOSA™ Technical Standard
- Up to 27 SDR/DDR/QDR/FDR/EDR InfiniBand ports
SDR/DDR/QDR/FDR/EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Data Plane Switch
- Supports SDR/DDR/QDR/FDR/EDR InfiniBand to backplane and Optical Interfaces
- Based on Mellanox Switch-IB 2 silicon
- Industry leading, true cut through latency
- Up to 5.4Tb/s of switching capacity
- Up to 6.8 billion messages-per-second
- Hardware-based adaptive routing and congestion control
- Up to 8 switch partitions
- Mirroring
1/10/25/40/100Gb Ethernet Control Plane Switch
- Supports 1/10/25Gb Ethernet to backplane
- Supports 1/10/25/40/100Gb Ethernet to backplane and optional front panel optical interfaces
- Based on Marvell Prestera-DX Switch silicon
- Layer-2 Wire-Speed Switching Engine
- IEEE 802.1Q-compliant bridging
- Large Forwarding Database (FDB) providing exact-match lookup for MAC entries, IGMPv3/MLDv2 IP Multicast, FCoE entries, and Router Host entries
- Learning and forwarding based virtual ports (ePorts) and virtual bridge domains (eVLANs) for L2/VSI overlay services
- L2 ECMP and Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) for load sharing and fast failover
- IEEE 802.1w (RSTP) and 802.1s (MSTP)
- Virtual Overlay Network supporting NVGRE, VXLAN-GPE, GENEVE, SPB, and 802.1BR port extender
- Supports two-step and one-step Transparent Mode Precision Time Protocol (PTP) per IEEE 1588v2 standard
Two Xilinx® Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC Motherboard Controller (XCZU5EG)
- Quad-core 64-bit ARM® Cortex-A53 running up to 1.2GHz
- Dual-core 32-bit Cortex-R5 real-time processor running up to 533MHz
- 16nm FinFET+ programmable logic
- 2 GB 32-bit DDR4 memory running up to 1200MHz
- Board support enabling user customization of ZYNQ+ design
- Multiple levels of hardware and software security
Optional Front Panel I/O
- Individual RJ45 and USB UART for Control and Data Plane processors
- Three Data Plane SDR/DDR/QDR/FDR/EDR InfiniBand optical connections
- One Control Plane 1/10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet optical connection
- Status LEDs
Optional VITA66.5 Optical I/O
- Six Data Plane SDR/DDR/QDR/FDR/EDR InfiniBand optical connections
- One Control Plane 1/10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet optical connection
System Management
- System Management using Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
- Diagnostic monitoring and configuration
- Current, Voltage and Temperature Monitoring Sensors
- Hot Swappable (exclusive to WILDSTAR OpenVPX EcoSystem)
Mechanical and Environmental
- 6U OpenVPX (VITA 65) Compliant 1.0″ spacing
- Supports new SOSA/VITA 65 switch profile SLT6-SWH-14F16U1U15U1J-10.8.1
- Optional VITA 66 support
- Integrated Heat Sink and Board Stiffener
- Available in Industrial Temperature Grades
- Air, Conduction or Liquid Cooled
- Hot Swappable with air cooled variants
- Only requires +12V and +3.3VAUX from backplane
- RT3 backplane connectors for 100G support
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