Introducing 6-pack, the First Open Hardware Modular Switch
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A blue 7RU modular switch platform that Facebook builds and open-sources as a reference design, composed of wedge-derived half-slot line cards (16x40G front, 640G back), two fabric cards and point-to-point backplanes to form a 128x40Gb non-blocking building block. Each line card runs an OCP microserver+BMC and FBOSS on Linux, giving distributed control plane behavior, front-only serviceability, 3000W power and planned OCP contribution of hardware and software designs.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to Six-Pack
- 2:06Six-Pack highlights
- 3:48Motivation for hardware
- 5:49Key features of Six-Pack
- 7:34Disaggregation and design
- 10:12Switching architecture
- 13:29System design
- 15:34Line card and fabric
- 17:42Software and management
- 18:54Contribution and outlook
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