Highlights
- “Pay as you grow” scalability with the ability to turn on additional 10Gb or 40Gb ports
- Reduce cost and complexity via network convergence, stacking and Virtual Fabric
- Performance and low latency with 1.28 Tbps and less than 1 microsecond latency
- Investment protection when migrating from 1Gb to 10Gb and to a converged network
- Designed for FCoE as a transit switch, where FC is broken out further upstream in the network
Your IT department faces a number of challenges in preparing for the future. Some of those key areas are around virtualization and reducing cost and complexity, while automating things like VM mobility. At the same time you need technologies that are more tightly integrated, while also providing investment protection for the transition to cloud computing.
The IBM Flex System™ Fabric EN4093 and EN4093R 10Gb Scalable Switches provide unmatched scalability and performance, while also delivering innovations to help address a number of networking concerns today and providing capabilities that will help you prepare for the future.
Product features
Provides unmatched Ethernet scalability and performance, while delivering innovations to help address a number of networking concerns today and providing capabilities that will better prepare companies for the future.
Hardware summary
Ports:
- 42 internal 10Gb ports and 22 external 10Gb ports. Eight of these 10Gb uplinks can be used as two 40Gb uplink ports
Technology:
- 10Gb and 1Gb Ethernet
- Industry standards and seamless interoperability with existing networks
Contact IBM
- Request a quote
- Email IBM
- Find a Business Partner
Call IBM: 1-866-261-3023
Priority code: 102LH02W
Product resources
- IBM PureFlex System brochure (890KB)
- IBM PureFlex system configurations (971KB)
- Data sheet (959KB)
- Virtual tour – EN4093 (IBM suggests using Java version 6 Update 12 or higher)
- Virtual tour – EN4093R (IBM suggests using Java version 6 Update 12 or higher)
- Product guide
- Tolly Report: IBM Flex System switch interoperability with Cisco (1.42MB)
- IBM Flex System Fabric Network Strategy (639KB)
- Technical support
- Easy Connect solution brief (828KB)
Special offers
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