Minipack2

Minipack2 is a 4U modular switch developed by Meta and manufactured by Celestica.¹

As shown in the image above², it has eight Port Interface Modules (PIMs), and each PIM has:

• 512x 50G PAM4 serdes lanes through a Tomahawk 4 ASIC
• 16x QSFP56 200G ports or 8x QSFP-DD 400G ports

This provided a total of up to 128x 200G or 64x 400G ports.

Minipack2 was released as an OCP specification, and its configuration is detailed extensively in [Minipack2 Generic OCP spec]².

Footnotes

1. OCP: Meta updates Facebook’s data center switches, moves to SAI open source API - DCD (datacenterdynamics.com) ↩

2. Minipack2_Generic_OCP_Specification_rev1.0 (opencompute.org) ↩ ↩²