Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1072T Product Manual page 9

The network cables that can be used with the switch are listed in the following table.
Table 5. NE1072T RackSwitch network cabling requirements
Transceiver
40 Gb Ethernet
40Gb SR QSFP+ BiDi
(00YL631)
40Gb SR4 QSFP+
(49Y7884)
40Gb iSR4 QSFP+
(00D9865)
40Gb eSR4 QSFP+
(00FE325)
40Gb LR4 QSFP+
(00D6222)
Active optical cable
Direct attach copper
cable
10 Gb Ethernet
Fixed 10 Gb ports
Management ports
1 GbE management port
Serial port
Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1072T RackSwitch
Standard Cable
40GBASE-SR Up to 30 m with fiber optic cables supplied by Lenovo
BiDi (see Table 4); up to 100 m with OM3 or up to 150 m
with OM4 multimode fiber optic cable
40GBASE-SR4 10 m or 30 m MPO fiber optic cables supplied by
Lenovo (see Table 4); support for up to 100 m with OM3
or up to 150 m with OM4 multimode fiber optic cable
40GBASE-SR4 10 m or 30 m MPO fiber optic cables or MPO-4xLC
breakout cables up to 5 m supplied by Lenovo (see
Table 4); support for up to 100 m with OM3 or up to 150
m with OM4 multimode fiber optic cable
40GBASE-SR4 10 m or 30 m MPO fiber optic cables or MPO-4xLC
breakout cables up to 5 m supplied by Lenovo (see
Table 4); support for up to 300 m with OM3 or up to
400 m with OM4 multimode fiber optic cable
40GBASE-LR4 1310 nm single-mode fiber optic cable up to 10 km
40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ to QSFP+ active optical cables up to 20 m;
QSFP+ to 4x SFP+ active optical break-out cables up to
5 m for 4x 10 GbE SFP+ connections out of a 40 GbE
port (see Table 4)
40GBASE-CR4 QSFP+ to QSFP+ DAC cables up to 7 m; QSFP+ to
4x SFP+ DAC break-out cables up to 5 m for 4x 10 GbE
SFP+ connections out of a 40 GbE port (see Table 4)
10GBASE-T UTP Category 6a or 7 up to 100 meters
1000BASE-T UTP Category 5, 5E, and 6 up to 100 meters
RS-232 DB-9/RJ-45-to-Mini-USB (comes with the switch)
Connector
LC
MPO
MPO
MPO
LC
QSFP+
QSFP+
RJ-45
RJ-45
Mini-USB
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