Features And Benefits; Product Architecture - HP 10500 series Specifications

Data sheet | HP 10500 Switch Series
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Features and benefits

Product architecture

• Advanced HP Comware modular operating system
Enables high stability, independent monitoring and restart of individual software modules,
and enhanced software process serviceability functions; allows individual software modules
to be upgraded for higher availability; and supports enhanced serviceability functions
• In-service software upgrade
Provides an upgrade of the entire chassis or an individual task or process, with zero-packet loss
• Distributed architecture with separation of data and control planes
Delivers enhanced fault tolerance and facilitates nearly continuous operation and zero-service
disruption during planned or unplanned control-plane events
• Multitenant Device Context
Virtualizes a physical switch into multiple logical devices, with each logical switch having its
own processes, configuration, and administration
Performance
• High-speed fully distributed architecture
Provides up to 11.52 Tbps switching capacity with released line cards and up to 13.72 Tbps
switching fabric capacity with Type D fabric; modules provide non-blocking wirespeed
10GbE/40GbE/100GbE performance; with 4 fabrics, the switch delivers up to 8.571 billion pps
throughput; all switching and routing is performed in the I/O modules; meets the demand of
bandwidth-intensive applications today and in the future
• Scalable system design
Provides investment protection to support future technologies and higher-speed connectivity,
as the switch is designed for increased backplane bandwidth
• Flexible chassis selection
Enables you to tailor product selections to your budget with a choice of 4 chassis: the 10504
switch (4 open module slots), 10508 switch (8 open module slots), 10508-V switch (8 vertical
open module slots), and 10512 switch (12 open module slots)
Connectivity
• High-density port connectivity
Offers up to 12 interface module slots; provides up to 96 40GbE ports, 576 10GbE ports, and
576 gigabit fiber/electrical ports per system
• Jumbo frames
Allows high-performance backups and disaster-recovery systems; and provides a maximum
frame size of 9K bytes
• Loopback
Supports internal loopback testing for maintenance purposes and an increase in availability;
loopback detection protects against incorrect cabling or network configurations and can be
enabled on a per-port or per-VLAN basis for added flexibility
• Ethernet operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM)
Detects data link layer problems that occurred in the "last mile" using the IEEE 802.3ah OAM
standard; monitors the status of the link between 2 devices
• Flexible port selection
Provides a combination of fiber and copper interface modules, 100/1000BASE-X auto-speed
selection, and 10/100/1000BASE-T auto-speed detection plus auto duplex and MDI/MDI-X