- Scalable layer 2 fabrics: builds flexible, resilient, and scalable layer 2 fabrics with TRILL and HPE IRF
- Data Center Bridging (DCB) protocols: supports IEEE 802.1Qaz DataCenter Bridging Exchange (DCBX), Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS), and IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority Flow Control (PFC) for converged fabrics
- Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capabilities: delivers support for FCoE, including expansion, fabric, trunk VF and N ports, and aggregation of E-portand N-port virtualization
- Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB) with Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) support: provides connectivity into the virtualization-ready data center environment
- Front-to-back airflow design: accommodates deployment in data centers utilizing hot-cold aisles
- High-performance fully distributed architecture: delivers up to 7.7 Tbps switching capacity and 5.76 Bpps throughput with nonblocking wire-speed performance and latency as low as 3 microseconds
- High-density 1GbE/10GbE and 40GbE interface connectivity: offers up to eight interface module slots to scale up to 384 1GbE/10GbE and 64 40GbE ports
- Scalable system design: provides investment protection to support future technologies and higher-speed connectivity as the switch is designed for increased backplane bandwidth
- Distributed architecture with separation of data and control planes: delivers enhanced fault tolerance and facilitates continuous operation and zero service disruption during planned or unplanned control-plane events
- Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF): creates virtual resilient switching fabrics, where two or more switches perform as a single L2 switch and L3 router
- Redundant/load-sharing fabrics, management, fan assemblies, and power supplies: increase total performance and power availability while providing hitless, stateful failover
- Hot-swappable modules: allows replacement of modules without any impact on other modules
- Graceful restart: allows routers to indicate to others their capability to maintain a routing table during a temporary shutdown, which significantly reduces convergence times upon recovery
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP): allows groups of two routers to dynamically back each other up to create highly available routed environments
The HPE FlexFabric 11900 switch series is a high-performance data center aggregation switch that provides line-rate, high-density 10GbE and 40GbE connectivity designed for cost-effective end-of-row (EoR) and small core deployments. With latency as low as 3 µs, the HPE FlexFabric 11900 switch series can scale to 384 1GbE/10GbE and 64 40GbE ports.
The switch delivers up to 7.7 Tbps switching capacity and 5.8 Bpps forwarding throughput. A broad variety of interface options is available, including GbE, 10GbE and 40GbE.
Ready for software-defined networking (SDN), the switch supports full Layer 2 and 3 features, including advanced features such as Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) and Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF), which provides the ability to build large, resilient switching fabrics. The HPE FlexFabric 11900 switch series also supports fully redundant and hot-swappable components to complement its other enterprise-class capabilities.