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Introduction
Are you working with AI?
If you are an enterprise customer exploring the possibilities of AI for your company or even an AI service provider, you re looking for the same 4 requirements to have your AI supercomputer connected to your network and/or the Internet.
1. High speeds and reliablility of the network
2. Global reach
3. Scalablility of your IT stack
4. Security
In this blog we will tell you more how NETGEAR’s Fully Managed Switches provide these 4 requirements without having to make a huge investment.
High speeds and reliablility of the network
Bandwidth and speed are essential when building an AI/ML cluster network.
NETGEAR provides 25G/100G full duplex switch ports, flowing in both directions at the maximum specified speed. This fully accommodates the switch fabric in a non-blocking architecture like a radix network.
NETGEAR switches are used in the data centres connecting the clusters of quantum computers to the network for analysing thousands of concurrent camera feeds.
Extreme reliablility thanks to non-stop forwarding (NSF) and hitless failover.
Global reach & Support
NETGEAR is a global company headquartered in San José, the US and offices in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South America and Africa.
Our global support team can be reached 24/7/365 around the world. These NETGEAR engineers have a lot of experience with networking demands for AI/ML environments, our dedicated team of Network Experts can help you create a network design, give hardware advice, support you and train you and your team to make sure connectivity will not be an issue.
Global lifetime Next Business Day Hardware Replacement.
Scalablility of your IT stack
The Data centre market is projected to grow 9,5% until 2026 as a result of the rapid expansion of AI/ML. NETGEAR 25G / 100G switches are stackable to support scalable growth that meets the demands of your server cluster.
Virtual chassis stacking provides scalability for high speed networking.
Security and network management
Central management and configuration of the connectivity between your computer nodes and storage arrays are needed for operational ease of use of the Supercomputer.
NETGEAR ENGAGE gives you the capabilities to monitor the traffic and packet size distribution, troubleshoot link failures and manage the (POE) power consumption of the clusters.
Layer 3 feature security set includes static, policy-based, and dynamic routing.
Resumé
NETGEAR’s M4350 and M4500 Managed Switch Lines have the capabilities for you to build a server cluster or Radix Network to handle large amounts of AI data, providing higher port speeds for large training clusters.
Our M4350 and M4500 lines offer:
• Pre-configured for out-of-the-box use
• Redundant Spine & Leaf topologies
• VLAN configuration flexibility
• Power and Fan redundancy
• IPv4/IPv6 Security, DHCP Snooping, IP Source Guard, and CoPP
• Fault tolerance and load sharing
• IPv4/IPv6 static and dynamic routing
• Prioritization with advanced classifier-based, time-based hardware implementation for L2 (MAC), L3 (IP) and L4 (UDP/TCP)
Click here if you want to know more about our Fully Managed Switches or contact our salesteam by mailing to uksales@netger.com.
