Leveraging industry innovation, IBM offers a broad choice of Ethernet switch solutions based on open standards that do not incur costly vendor lock-in. IBM Ethernet switch portfolio includes new offerings that extend the popular IBM Virtual Fabric—previously available only for BladeCenter—to your rack-optimized systems including recently announced systems like eX5. And with System x networking solutions, you get a single point of contact for consultation, sourcing and service.
I/O hardware
The RackSwitch™ G8264CS simplifies deployment and future growth with its Omni Ports giving clients the choice of 10 Gb Ethernet, 4/8 Gb Fibre Channel or both for upstream connections. It combines state of the art 1.28 Tbps throughput in an ultra-dense 1U form factor.
- Warranty 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty, next business day 9×5, service upgrades available
- Max Thru-put (bidirectional)/Latency 1.28 Tbps/Low latency
- Ports 36 × 10 GbE SFP+, 12 Omni Ports, 4 × 40 GbE QSFP+
- Redundancy Redundant hot-swap power and fans standard
The RackSwitch G8000 is a top-of-rack switch specifically designed for the data center. It combines great performance, server-like airflow for cooling and low power consumption in a virtualization-ready package available at an attractive price.
- Warranty 3-year next-business-day advance replacement with phone support and 3-year software upgrades
- Max Thru-put (bidirectional) Gbps 176 Gbps
- Ports 48 x 1 GbE (44 RJ-45 and 4 SFP), and up to 4 x 10 GbE CX4 or SFP+ with optional uplink module
- Redundancy Redundant power supplies and fans come standard
The RackSwitch G8052 is a top-of-rack switch specifically designed for the data center. It combines great performance, server-like airflow for cooling and low power consumption in a virtualization-ready package available at an attractive price.
- Warranty 3-year next business day replacement, phone support and software upgrades
- Max Thru-put (bidirectional)/Latency 176 Gbps/1.8 microseconds
- Ports 48 × 1 GbE (48RJ-45), 4 × 10 GbE SFP+
- Redundancy Redundant power and fans standard
The RackSwitch G8124E is designed with top performance in mind. The low-latency switch provides line-rate, high-bandwidth switching, filtering and traffic queuing without delaying data
- Warranty 3-year next business day advanced replacement with phone support and 3-year software upgrades
- Max Thru-put (bidirectional)/Latency 480 Gbps/570 nanoseconds
- Ports 24 1/10GbE SFP+
- Redundancy Redundant power supplies and fans come standard
The RackSwitch G8264 is a 10 Gb/40 Gb top of rack switch specifically designed for applications requiring the highest performance. It combines state of the art 1.28 Tbps throughput with up to sixty-four 10 Gb SFP+ connections in an ultra-dense 1U form factor.
- Warranty 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty, next business day 9×5, service upgrades available
- Max Thru-put (bidirectional)/Latency 1.28 Tbps/880 nanoseconds
- Ports 48 × 10 GbE SFP+, 4 × 40 GbE QSFP+
- Redundancy Redundant power and fans standard
The RackSwitch G8264T is 10GBase-T top of rack switch which provides a flexible and low-cost connectivity option for servers and storage devices.
- Warranty 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty, next business day 9×5, service upgrades available
- Max Thru-put (bidirectional)/Latency 1.28 Tbps/3.2 microseconds
- Ports 48 x 10GBase-T, 4x40 GbE QSFP+
- Redundancy Redundant power and fans standard
The RackSwitch G8316 is a 40 Gb top of rack aggregation switch specifically designed for applications requiring the highest performance. It combines state of the art 1.28 Tbps throughput with up to 64 10 Gb SFP+ ports in an ultra-dense 1U form factor.
- Warranty One-year next business day replacement, phone support and software upgrades
- Max Thru-put (bidirectional)/Latency 1.28 Tbps/less than 1 microsecond
- Ports 16×40 GbE QSFP+, 64×10 GbE SFP+
- Redundancy Redundant power and fans standard
The Brocade VDX 6730 Switch for IBM connects to Fibre Channel over Ethernet, iSCSI and NAS storage providing unified Ethernet storage connectivity options.
- Form Factor 1U or 2U
- Ports VDX 6730-32 with 24 x 10 GbE LAN ports and 8 x 8 Gbps native Fibre Channel ports
VDX 6730-76 with 60 x 10 GbE LAN ports and 16 x 8 Gbps native Fibre Channel ports
- Redundancy Redundant power and fans standard
- Warranty 1-year next business day replacement, phone support and software upgrades
The EX2200 is an economical, high-performance, 1 GbE stand-alone switch for top-of-rack server applications, access-layer deployments in remote offices, and campus networks.
- Form factor 1U with 10" depth
- Ports 24 and 48 x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet and 4 SFP uplink ports
- Packet Switching Capacities 24-port: 56 Gbps
48-port: 104 Gbps
- Warranty 3-year, next business day-hardware replacement, with telephone support, and software updates
This switch was designed for high-performance server access deployments. A single switch can be deployed initially; as requirements grow, Virtual Chassis technology allows up to ten switches to be interconnected over a 128 Gbps backplane and managed as a single device.
- Form factor 1RU
- Ports 48 1 GbE, optional 4X1 GbE, 2X10 GbE dual-mode uplink module.
2 rear-panel Virtual Chassis ports support 128 Gbps backplane connections to other IBM J48E switches in a Virtual Chassis configuration.
- Packet Switching capacity/latency 136 Gbps/1.96 microseconds
- Redundancy Fans standard, power optional
The Juniper Networks EX4500 delivers an easy/nondisruptive migration path from 1 GbE to 10 GbE while maintaining the manageability of a single switch.
- 1/10 GbE Ports 40x in base unit; 48 total with optional uplink modules
- Airflow Front-to-back and back-to-front models
- Rack height 2U
- Operating Systems Juniper Networks JUNOS software
I/O virtualization
IBM Virtual fabric is a fast, flexible, reliable I/O solution that helps reduce cost and complexity in both virtualized and non-virtualized environments.
- Virtual: Multiple virtual ports (Ethernet) from a single physical port
- Performance: Fast line-rate 10Gb performance
- Scalability: Define exact number of ports needed (from 2 to 8 per adapter)
- Flexibility: Each virtual port operates anywhere between 100Mb and 10Gb
- Reliability: Intelligent Failure Monitoring to enable automatic failover between physical or virtual ports
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