Notices And Statements; Features And Specifications; Features - IBM Flex System EN4023 User Manual

Notices and statements

Features and specifications

The IBM Flex System EN4023 10Gb Scalable Switch supports the following features and
specifications.

Features

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Introduction
64 10-Gbps Ethernet ports
Up to 42 internal ports connected to 14 compute nodes at the midplane auto-negotiating to
10-Gbps Ethernet (available through Ports-On-Demand activation)
Up to 14 external ports capable of supporting 1-Gbps Ethernet or 10-Gbps Ethernet through
10-Gbps SFP+ transceivers (available through Ports-On-Demand activation)
2 Quad SFP (QSFP) ports that can support 40-Gbps Ethernet or 4x10-Gbps Ethernet in
breakout mode (available through Ports-On-Demand activation)
Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking, which allows up to eight ports (at 40-Gbps or 10-Gbps speeds)
to combine to form a single, logical ISL with a speed of up to 128 Gbps (256-Gbps full-duplex)
for optimal bandwidth utilization, automatic path failover, and load balancing
Internal 1-Gbps full-duplex Ethernet port to connect to the redundant IBM Chassis
Management Modules (CMMs)
Supports up to 640-Gbps I/O bandwidth
Notices and statements
Notices for Network Device
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