| Function | Description | Nvidia Spectrum | Dell SONiC | Arista EOS | EdgeCore SONiC | Equinix Metal | PhoenixNAP |
| Fabric Manager | Day0, Day1, and Day2 switch fabric operations. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | N/A | N/A |
| Parallel Fabrics | Manage multiple isolated switch fabrics. (example: East-West and North-South) | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | N/A | N/A |
| Topology Manager | Design and operate the switch fabric. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | N/A | N/A |
| Maintenance Mode | Offload a network node for a maintenance. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| IPAM | Manage IP subnets. Assign RBAC, multi-tenancy, and service-based rules and roles to IP address resources. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Looking Glass | Lookup underlay and overlay routing info of any managed network node without SSH-ing. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Monitoring: Switch Ports | Automatic monitoring of Link statuses, link utilization, laser signal levels, errors, packets. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | N/A | N/A |
| Monitoring: Resources | Automatic monitoring of CPU, RAM, Disk, and ASIC resources. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Monitoring: Sensors | Automatic monitoring of temperature, fans, power supply statuses. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | N/A | N/A |
| Monitoring: System Processes | Automatic monitoring of critical system processes. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Topology Validation | Detect wiring errors. | ✔ | Dec/2024 | Nov/2024 | Dec/2024 | N/A | N/A |
| BGP Unnumbered | Any network topology with BGP unnumbered underlay | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | N/A | N/A |
| BGP Numbered | Any network topology with BGP numbered underlay | ✔ | Dec/2024 | Nov/2024 | Dec/2024 | N/A | N/A |
| Function | Description | Nvidia Spectrum | Dell-SONiC | Arista EOS | EdgeCore-SONiC | Equinix Metal | PhoenixNAP |
| External BGP (SoftGate) | Terminate full routing table on SoftGate Gateway-server. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| External BGP (Switch) | Peer with external routers. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | N/A | N/A |
| BGP Route-Maps | Create chain of BGP rules. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Static Routes | Define static routing rules. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Function | Description | Nvidia Spectrum | Dell-SONiC | Arista EOS | EdgeCore-SONiC | Equinix Metal | PhoenixNAP |
| VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) | Isolated VPCs, VRFs. Overlapping IPs supported. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| V-Net (Subnet) | L3VPN VXLAN or L2VPN VXLAN with an anycast default Gateway, and built-in DHCP. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Server Cluster (Profiling) | Create network constructs template, then apply it on groups of servers. | ✔ | Dec/2024 | Nov/2024 | Dec/2024 | TBD | TBD |
| Internet Gateway | Provide shared Internet access to V-Nets and VPC | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | Dec/2024 | ✔ (single VPC) | ✔ (single VPC) |
| NAT Gateway | Provide shared DNAT, PAT, 1:1 NAT to multiple V-Nets and multiple VPCs | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | Dec/2024 | ✔ (single VPC) | ✔ (single VPC) |
| L4 Load Balancer | Provide on-demand elastic load balancer service to hosts in multiple V-Nets and multiple VPCs | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | Dec/2024 | ✔ (single VPC) | ✔ (single VPC) |
| SiteMesh | Wireguard-based Site-to-Site VPN between multiple regions/sites. (single VPC) | ✔ | TBD | Nov/2024 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Function | Description | Nvidia Spectrum | Dell-SONiC | Arista EOS | EdgeCore-SONiC | Equinix Metal | PhoenixNAP |
| L2VPN VXLAN VLAN Aware | L2VPN VXLAN with VLAN tagged or untagged termination on switch port. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | N/A | N/A |
| L2VPN VXLAN VLAN Unaware | L2VPN VXLAN with VLAN tagged or untagged termination on switch port supporting different VLAN IDs on different end points. | N/A | N/A | Nov/2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| L3VPN VXLAN | L3VPN VXLAN, Commonly used in high performance computing, such as AI clusters. | ✔ | TBD | TBD | Dec/2024 | N/A | N/A |
| EVPN-MH / VXLAN-ESI | EVPN MultiHoming based on VXLAN and ESI for automatic Active-Active server network multihoming | ✔ | Dec/2024 | Nov/2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| LACP | Link Aggregation or Active-Standby server multihoming. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | Dec/2024 | N/A | N/A |
| MC-LAG | Traditional MC-LAG-based server multihoming | ✔ | TBD | TBD | Dec/2024 | N/A | N/A |
| Function | Description | Nvidia Spectrum | Dell-SONiC | Arista EOS | EdgeCore-SONiC | Equinix Metal | PhoenixNAP |
| Spectrum-X | AI GPU cluster switch fabric operation for Nvidia Spectrum-X | ✔ | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Rail-optimized designs | Topology and best practices initialization module for rail-optimized fabrics | ✔ | N/A | N/A | Dec/2024 | N/A | N/A |
| QoS for RoCE | Enable QoS for RoCE workloads | ✔ | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| RoCE Adaptive Routing | Enable RoCE adaptive routing | ✔ | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| RoCE Congestion Control | Enable automatic congestion control for RoCE workloads | ✔ | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| DPU/Host zero-touch configuration | Automatically configure IP addresses, routing, RoCE and other DPU/SuperNIC specific configuration on GPU servers | ✔ | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Function | Description | Nvidia Spectrum | Dell-SONiC | Arista EOS | EdgeCore-SONiC | Equinix Metal | PhoenixNAP |
| Network ACLs | Centralized Network Access Control Lists. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | Dec/2024 | N/A | N/A |
| Managed Device Profiling | Managed switch & SoftGate protection from unwanted access, push administrative and system settings (NTP, DNS, timezone, etc.) | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | Dec/2024 | N/A | N/A |
| Audit Logs | Log all controller access and changes. | ✔ | ✔ | Nov/2024 | ✔ | N/A | N/A |
| Function | Description | Globally |
| Role Based Access Control | Who can view and edit which aspects of the system. | ✔ |
| Multi-Tenancy | Network resource delegation to tenants. | ✔ |
| Function | Description | Globally |
| Web Console | Manage through intuitive web interface. | ✔ |
| RestAPI | Integrate your other systems or your customer-facing portal with Netris consuming RestAPIs. | ✔ |
| IaC: Terraform | Manage your infrastructure as a code using Terraform. | ✔ |
| Function | Description | Kubernetes | Vmware | Apache Cloud Stack | OpenStack | Harvester | Proxmox |
| L4 Load Balancer | Layer-4 container or vm/server load balancer with health checks. | ✔ (native & automatic) | ✔ (need to specify backend IPs) | Dec/2024 | ✔ (need to specify backend IPs) | ✔ (need to specify backend IPs) | ✔ (need to specify backend IPs) |
| VPC to internal routing peering | Automatically route internal networks into VPC routing table (allow containers communicate with VMs). | ✔ | N/A | Dec/2024 | Dec/2024 | TBD | TBD |
| Automatic VXLAN/VLAN | Automatically provision VXLAN/VLAN on switch fabric and include appropriate switch ports when virtual network is created in the hypervisor. | TBD | ✔ | ✔ | Dec/2024 | TBD | TBD |
| HBN Host-based networking. | Terminate VTEPs on the hypervisor host. Scale beyond VLAN limits | Dec/2024 | TBD | Dec/2024 | Dec/2024 | TBD | TBD |
| HBN on DPU | Host-based networking. Terminate VTEPs on the hypervisor host DPU. Scale beyond VLAN limits with accelerated performance | 2025 | TBD | 2025 | 2025 | TBD | TBD |
SoftGate is Netris data plane for Internet Gateway, NAT Gateway, Network Access Control, Elastic Load Balancer, and Site-to-Site VPN functions.
| Flavor | Common Use Case | Availability | Tenancy/VPC | Handoff | Packet Forwarding | HA & Scalability | Ethernet Environment | NIC | CPU | RAM | Disk | Performance (w/ 100 NAT rules) |
| SoftGate | Bare metal cloud site, Edge site, Remote office. | ✔ | Single | VLAN | Linux w/ Netris optimizations | Active/Standby - 2 nodes | Dot1q: Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP, pre-configured VLAN-range on any Ethernet switches. | Any | Intel or AMD | 16-64GB | 300GB | Dual Gold 6336Y (48c x 2.3GHz) - 11Gbps / 1.8Mpps |
| SoftGate PRO | Private Cloud, Public Cloud Border Gateway, Enterprise Cloud, Vmware NSX alternative. | ✔ | Single | VLAN | Netris DPDK | Active/Standby - 2 nodes | Netris Switch-Fabric | Nvidia Connect-X 5, 6 100Gbe | Intel XEON (required for DPDK) | 128GB | 300GB | Intel XEON Platinum 20+ cores - 100Gbps / 25Mpps |
| SoftGate HS (HyperScale) | Scalable GPU & CPU Cloud Services Provider. | ✔ | Multi | VXLAN | Linux w/ Netris optimizations | Active/Active - Horizontally scalable | Netris Switch-Fabric | Any OK. Nvidia Connect-X is recommended | Intel or AMD | 128-256GB | 300GB | Dual Platinum 8352Y (64c x 2.2GHz) - 22Gbps / 3.5 Mpps |
| SoftGate HS PRO | Scalable GPU & CPU Cloud Services Provider. | 2025/Q2 | Multi | VXLAN | Netris | Active/Active - Horizontally scalable | Netris Switch-Fabric | Nvidia Connect-X 5, 6, 7 | Intel, AMD (TBD) | 256GB+ | 300GB | TBD |
| Netris Version | Switch & OS | Bare Metal Cloud | SoftGate OS | Availability |
| 4.4.0 | Nvidia Cumulus 5.11, Dell SONiC 4.4, EdgeCore SONiC 202211-331 | Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC | SoftGate HS: Ubuntu 24.04, SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04 | Dec/2024 |
| 4.3.0 | Nvidia Cumulus 5.9, Dell SONiC 4.1, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3 | Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC | SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04 (non-pro) | ✔ |
| 4.2.0 | Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, Dell SONiC 4.1, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3 | Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC | SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04 | ✔ |
| 4.1.1 | Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3 | Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC | SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04 | ✔ |
| 4.0.0 | Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3 | Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC | SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04 | ✔ |
| 3.5.0 | Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3 | Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC | SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04 | ✔ |
| 3.4.1 | Nvidia Cumulus 5.7, EdgeCore SONiC 12.3 | Equinix Metal, PhoenixNAP BMC | SoftGate Pro: Ubuntu 20.04, SoftGate: Ubuntu 22.04 | ✔ |