Xsight Labs and Interface Masters Partner to Produce the World’s Highest Performance Enhanced Switch Appliance (EXA)
Fully programmable bare-metal smart switch provides greatest service density available at less than half the power with four times the performance per rack units.
News Highlights:
-
Xsight Labs announces collaboration with Interface Masters Technologies on the Tahoe 3828 EXA (Enhanced Switch Appliance), the industry’s highest performance Ethernet port speeds and connection-per-second flow learning rate, lowest power-per-connection, and highest all layer SDN service density. - Unparalleled 1 RU EXA supports advanced applications including AI Edge Inference Gateway, AI-enabled Distributed Firewall Security appliance, and highest performing cloud-scale AI enabled real-time analytics and packet-broker platform.
- The Enhanced Switch Appliance is an Open Networking Platform and will begin shipping to strategic customers in early Q1 2026 with general availability from software partners beginning in Q2 2026.
Examples include:
- AI Edge Inference and cloud gateways, including Carrier NAT and load balancing services
- Enabling next generation hyperscale and Neocloud multitenancy with extreme scale and the highest networking bandwidth
- In-network distributed stateful security
- Advanced AI microservice orchestration with advanced dynamic policy enforcement
- Packet brokers, advanced instrumentation telemetry, and packet tracing
- High Availability Network and security appliances
- 5.5G and 6G terrestrial and satellite base stations
- Warm storage controller for CDN media & broadcast applications
The Interface Masters EXA is built on two TSMC N5 chips by
“As AI redirects budgets away from large established markets, including traditional mobility, enterprise, and cloud, these new all-layer smart switches will enable the delivery of new mission-critical services,” said
The initial EXA is available in a 1RU form factor with 28 x 400GE networking ports of connectivity and with 128 x N2
Feature Highlights:
-
Edge SDN & Linux Compute Leadership (128
Arm N2 cores total; 11.2Tbps) 28 x 400G QSFP-112 Ethernet networking - High-end timing, supporting multiple 1588v2 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) profiles for emerging AI, mobility, and legacy applications
- 1.6T SONiC DASH performance leadership, hundreds of millions of flows with zero packet loss
- Greater than 28 MCPS Vnet-Vnet DASH smart NIC virtual services pooling performance
- 128GB deep buffer Traffic Management with Hierarchical Quality of Service scheduling
-
Lowest System Power : <475W in 1 RU with 1.6T SDN L4-L7 SDN Processing and 11.2T SDN L2-L4 - X2 Ethernet Switch chip (UEC): 12.8T (128x112G) L1-L4; leading efficiency (TDP <186W)
- E1 800G DPU Edge Server infrastructure processors with DPDK SDN L2-L7 (TDP <75W)
Perspectives
“We at Interface Masters are proud of having the opportunity to work together with
~
"Niagara Networks has selected the Interface Masters Tahoe 3828 EXA as its hardware platform to host their FabricFlow packet broker engine. The Tahoe 3828 EXA delivers the highest service density per watt and per rack unit of any alternative on the market, and we are confident this partnership will provide the lowest total cost of ownership for our strategic customers."
~ André Vink, VP of Products and Engineering, Niagara Networks
“At RedFig Networks, we are excited to adopt the Interface Masters Technologies Tahoe 3828 EXA into our solution stack. By combining Xsight Labs’ X2 programmable switch and E1 DPU in a single platform, this next-generation design gives us the performance, flexibility, and openness needed to serve our customers’ future requirements. It not only moves beyond the limitations of any other product in the market but also unlocks entirely new possibilities — from advanced security processing to real-time analytics and service acceleration. This innovation ensures we can deliver solutions that are not just future-ready, but future-defining.”
~
“Cyber Forza is proud to advance the frontier of AI Cyber Defensive Operations with our Cloud-Integrated AI SEC OPS platform ported to the Interface Masters Technologies Tahoe 3828 EXA smart switch. Together with
~Dr.
Availability
The Tahoe 3828 EXA will begin shipping to customers in Q1 2026. View the products page for details: https://interfacemasters.com/products
For ordering information, email sales@xsightlabs.com or visit our contact page.
About
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251013361733/en/
Xsight Labs Contact: sales@xsightlabs.com
Interface Masters Contact:
Niagara Networks Contact:
Source: