Hipernetch: High-Performance FPGA Network Switch

We present Hipernetch, a novel FPGA-based design for performing high-bandwidth network switching. FPGAs have recently become more popular in data centers due to their promising capabilities wide range of applications. With the recent surge transceiver bandwidth, they could further benefit implementation and refinement switches used centers. Hipernetch replaces crossbar with “combined parallel round-robin arbiter”. Unlike crossbar, combined arbiter is easy pipeline, does not require centralised iterative scheduling algorithms that try fit too many steps single or few FPGA cycles. The result switch on operating at high frequency low port-to-port latency. Our proposed architecture additionally provides competitive switching performance approaching output-queued switches. implemented designs exhibit throughput exceeds 100 Gbps per port up 16 ports, reaching an aggregate around 1.7 Tbps.