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The number of The maximum entries of OpenFlow Flows is often a critical piece of any SDN solution. This is a summary of Openflow Flow scalability per family of Chipset.
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Helix4 | 108kB | 96k(UFT)TCAM Size | FIB Size | All tuples in TCAM | IPv4 in TCAM | IPv6 in TCAM | MAC in TCAM | ARP in TCAM | IPv4 in FIB | IPv6 in FIB | ICAP (maximum entries in default or match modes) | ECAP (entries) | VCAP (entries) | L2 (maximum entries when buffer-mode is 5) | L3 (maximum entries when buffer-mode 5) |
default | IPv4 | IPv6 | MAC | ARP | IPv4 host route | IPv4 forwarding route | IPv6 host route | IPv6 forwarding route |
Helix4 | 2048 | 4096 | 2048 | 4096 | 2048 | 512 | 1024 |
4096204812000 | Apollo2108kB | 176k(UFT)10242048120006000Firebolt3108kB32K2048409640962048 | 1024 | 2048 | 2048 | 512 | 512 | 32768 | 12000 | 12000 | 6000 |
Triumph2216kB32K8192 | 8192Trident8000 | 54kB128K10242048204810248000Trident2108kB | Common FIB and L2 Memory | 2048 | 4096 | 1024 | 4096 | 2048 | 115200 | 6000(will improve later) | Trident2+ | | Common FIB and L2 Memory | 8192 | 16384 | 4096 | 16384 | 8192 | 115200 | 6000(will improve later) |
Tomahawk | 162kB | Common FIB and L2 Memory | 1024 | Not Support | Not Support | Not Support | Not Support | 115200 | 57600 |
6000 |
Trident3 | 3072 | 3072 | 3072 | 3072 | 3072 | 1024 | 512 | 32768 | 12000 | 12000 | 6000 | 6000 |
Tomahawk | 1024 | 3072 | 1024 | 3072 | 3072 | 512 | 512 | 8192 | 6500 | 12000 | 3250 | 6000 |
Maverick | 4096 | 8192 | 4096 | 8192 | 8192 | 512 | 512 | 32768 | 4000 | 12000 | 2000 | 6000 |