HPE 12916E Switch Chassis

The HP FlexFabric 12900 Switch Series is a next-generation modular data center core switch designed to support virtualized data centers and the evolving needs of private and public cloud deployments. It delivers unprecedented levels of performance, buffering, scale, and availability with high density 10GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE connectivity.

The Switch Series includes 4-, 8-, 10- and 16-slot chassis. Ready for software-defined networking (SDN), the FlexFabric 12900 Switch supports full Layer 2 and 3 features and advanced data center features to build resilient scalable fabric and achieve convergence.

Ports
*16 I/O module slots, maximum
*Supports a maximum of 768 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 768 1/10GbE ports or 768 1/10GBASE-T ports or 384 40GbE ports or 64 100GbE ports, or a combination

Memory and processor
*Quad Core MIPS64 @ 1.2 GHz
*1 GB flash
*8 GB DDR2 SDRAM

Throughput
*up to 92.1 Bpps

Switching capacity
*184 Tbps

Stacking capabilities
*IRF
*2 switches