IBM BladeCenter Layer 2/3 Gb Ethernet Switch Modules

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Highlights

Takes advantage of flexible, in-chassis, traffic management and sophisticated security through Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 routing capabilities
Helps meet stringent requirements of both enterprise and telecom environments
Realizes high return on investment through potentially lower management costs and price/performance leadership for integrated switch modules

Helps keep systems up and running with unmatched high-availability support and proven resilience

As organizations demand more business applications, data centers have become more complex, cumbersome and expensive to manage. The IBM® BladeCenter® platform offers solutions to help lower costs while enhancing performance by accommodating many integration technologies.

The IBM BladeCenter Layer 2/3 Gb Ethernet Switch Modules (GbE SMs) offer integrated switching that lets you consolidate full Layer 2 and Layer 3 LAN switching and routing capabilities into a single BladeCenter chassis, lower costs and simplify deployment. This consolidation helps flatten the data center infrastructure and reduce the number of discrete devices, management consoles and equipment vendors that administrators need to manage. Clients have the choice of either a Fiber and Copper version of this switch.

Product features

Integration and consolidation
Layer 3 functionality:
Fiber offering
Interoperability
Fault tolerance

Hardware summary

Six external ports: 1000BASE-T or 1000BASE-SX (6 SFPs included) depends on model
14 internal ports: 1000BASE to the server blades. 2 ports: 100 Mbps
Full line rate performance: 40 Gbps or 29.76 million packets per second
Power: 27 W