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.

Xsight Labs today announced a strategic collaboration with Interface Masters Technologies to deliver the industry’s greatest service density and lowest power-per-RU Smart Switch offering fully programmable SDN for all layers – OSI L2-L7. The Tahoe 3828 EXA Enhanced Switch Appliance delivers over four times the service density with half the power per Gbps over alternative Smart Switch options, while only requiring 1RU of rack space. The SONiC Network Operating System, including support for a 1.6T SONiC DASH Hero datapath is available. The EXA will be offered by both Interface Masters and their partners with complete software applications.

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 Xsight Labs employing 112G SerDes on both the switch and DPUs, ensuring the highest performance and superior economics. The Xsight Labs development model avoids unnecessary complexity and proprietary vendor lock-in. The E1 supports off-the-shelf Linux and standard DPDK or other common data plane tools, as opposed to overly complex architectures found in other DPUs. This open-programming model enables the fastest time to market with the greatest feature velocity.

“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 Ted Weatherford, VP Business Development, Xsight Labs. “With the disruptive TCO and the extreme feature velocity offered by the Tahoe 3828 EXA, software-defined smart switches are destined to replace dumb switches in the rapidly evolving AI era.”

The initial EXA is available in a 1RU form factor with 28 x 400GE networking ports of connectivity and with 128 x N2 Arm cores running Ubuntu. The system is Arm SystemReady (SR) Level 6, allowing any standard Linux distribution to run 64-bit cloud-native applications. The accelerating pace of AI and Edge Inference applications is best served by an open community with a democratized approach provided by the T3828 EXA.

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 Xsight Labs on our Tahoe 3828 Enhanced Switch Appliance (EXA) making use of the X2 switching ASIC and the E1 DPU. Our Tahoe 3832 Enhanced Switch (EX) is also based on the X2 switching ASIC. These systems stand out with their low power consumption, programmability, and timing capability, allowing them to be used across multiple industry verticals such as cloud service providers, telecommunications, media & broadcast, cyber security, and defense.”

~ Alexander Jeffries, VP Business Development, Interface Masters

"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.”

~ Kim Rea, CTO, RedFig Networks

“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 Xsight Labs and Interface Masters, we are delivering a comprehensive military-grade distributed firewall and AI cybersecurity operations platform. Neocloud, Cloud Service Providers, and enterprise customers are leveraging the unmatched resilience and unparalleled tokenized intelligence. The smart switch approach empowers organizations to move beyond traditional security models toward proactive defense, real-time adaptability, and seamless scalability in an AI-driven world. We are not just responding to the future of cyber threats — we are defining next gen AI security.”

~Dr. Venkat Rayapati, CEO, Cyber Forza, Inc.

Availability

The Tahoe 3828 EXA will begin shipping to customers in Q1 2026. View the products page for details: https://interfacemasters.com/products

Xsight Labs will be showing a demo of the system at 2025 OCP Global Summit on Oct. 13-16 in San Jose, CA. Xsight Labs X2 and E1 advanced N5 TSMC chipsets are available for purchase now.

For ordering information, email sales@xsightlabs.com or visit our contact page.

About Xsight Labs

Xsight Labs is a leading fabless semiconductor company providing intelligent connectivity solutions for next-generation hyperscale, edge and AI data center networks. Xsight Labs’ technology delivers exponential bandwidth growth and unmatched versatility while lowering power and total cost of ownership. Founded in 2017, Xsight Labs is headquartered in Kiryat Gat, Israel, with additional offices in Tel-Aviv and Haifa, and international offices in Yerevan, Armenia, as well as in Boston, Raleigh, and San Jose in the United States. For additional information, visit www.xsightlabs.com.

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