NETWORK PROCESSOR PRODUCT BRIEF † NP-5™ Network Processor 240Gbps NPU for Carrier Ethernet Applications HIGHLIGHTS Mellanox’s NP-5 is a highly-flexible network processor with integrated traffic management, targeting Carrier Ethernet Switches and Routers (CESR) and other Carrier Ethernet platforms – 240Gbps wire-speed network processor aimed that require high performance, flexible packet processing and fine-grained traffic management. at Carrier Ethernet applications TARGET APPLICATIONS – Integrated 240Gbps traffic management NP-5’s flexibility and integration allows system vendors to deliver cost effective solutions that providing granular bandwidth control can easily adapt to changing market requirements. – Up to 480Gbps peak processing data path and Typical applications include: Stand-alone pizza box solutions: CoS classification • Line cards in modular chassis: • Ethernet Aggregation Nodes – Suited for line card, services card and pizza box • Edge and Core Routers • Server Load Balancing Switches applications • Transport Switches • Multi-10Gbps Firewalls & VPN – On-chip control CPU for host CPU offload • Data Center Switches • Intrusion Detection Appliances • 3G/4G Wireless Infrastructure Equipment • Network Monitoring and Analysis Services – Power management for minimizing line card and system power dissipation SOFTWARE TOOLS – Operations, Administration and Management Mellanox supplies a comprehensive set of software tools to facilitate system design for NP-5 (OAM) processing offload based products. The toolset manages the data plane and allows designers to edit, build and – Synchronous Ethernet and IEEE1588v2 offload debug microcode applications for the Mellanox’s network processors with a unified GUI. for Circuit Emulation Services Designers can quickly develop and test the microcode using cycle-accurate simulation and debugging tools including breakpoints, single-step program execution and access to internal – IP reassembly for advanced packet processing resources. offload APPLICATIONS LIBRARY – Integrated serial interfaces with support for 64x1GE, 48x10GE, 12x40GE and 4x100GE Mellanox offers a library featuring production code and tested reference code to help its customers simplify their development efforts and expedite the time-to-market of their system – Utilizing DDR3 DRAM memory chips for products. The library includes: minimizing power and cost • L2 switching • IEEE 1588 1-step implementation – SW compatible with Mellanox’s NP-4 network • Metro Ethernet • Fragmentation and defragmentation processor • MPLS LER and SER • Multicasting • IPv4/IPv6 routing • L23 QoS – RoHS compliant • Access Control Lists (ACL) ©2019 Mellanox Technologies. All rights reserved. † For illustration only. Actual products may vary. Mellanox NP-5 Network Processor page 2 Figure 1. Interfaces Diagram NP-5 1GbE 10GbE 40GbE TOP Packet Traffic Manager 100GbE Processors & Interlaken Search Engines MACs SerDes Classifcation OAM and Queuing Internal Memory Internal TCAM SDRAM DDR3 Controllers 24x16bit SAMPLE APPLICATIONS Figure 2. Figure 3. NP-5 line card with 2x100GE, 6x40GE or 24x10GE network Pizza box with 12x 10GE and 3x 40GE network interfaces ports, and a dual Interlaken interconnect to a switch fabric. The Traffic Manager is 240Gbps providing 240Gbps egress scheduling or Virtual Output Queuing. 24x DDR3 SDRAM 24x DDR3 16b SDRAM 16b Dual Star Switch Fabric Interlaken 2 x 100GbE 24 x 10.3125Gb 16 x 10.3125Gb or XFI / SFI Optics 12 x 10.3125Gb 3 x XLAUI 6 x 40GbE Interlaken 12 x 10GbE 3 x 40GbE or Optics 12 x 10.3125Gb 16 x 10.3125Gb NP-5 24 x 10GbE NP-5 1/10GbE PCI Express 1/10GbE PCI Express + Optics XVP/SFP TCAM Host Line Card Host Pizza Box Table 1 - Part Numbers and Descriptions OPN Description 20782504 NP-5 240-Gigabit NPU (phase 2.2 chip) with integrated traffic management 350 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 100, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Tel: 408-970-3400 • Fax: 408-970-3403 www.mellanox.com © Copyright 2019. Mellanox Technologies. All rights reserved. Mellanox and Mellanox logo are registered trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. NP-5 and NP-4 are trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. 53042PB Rev 2.3.