Chapter 1 Overview; Features; Figure 1: Sx1016 Switch - Mellanox Technologies SwitchX MSX1016X-2BFR Hardware User Manual

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1 Overview
The SX1016 is an economical, high-performance 64-port 10GbE switch providing 1.28Tb/s of
line rate performance. Based on Mellanox's SwitchX® silicon and innovative hardware design,
the switch packs 64 SFP+ interfaces in an ultra-dense 1U form factor. The SX1016 features
industry leading latency of 250ns and power of less than 1.0W per port, providing optimal per-
formance and efficiency for enterprise data center, financial services, Web 2.0, High Performance
Computing and cloud computing applications.
Basic installation and hardware maintenance is covered in "Hardware Basic Operation and
Installation" on page 15.
1.1

Features

The SX1016 supports the following features:
• 64 SFP+ ports of 10 Gb/s
• up to 24 native Fiber Channel ports
• Two management options:
• Supports Mellanox PPC460 Mezzanine CPU
• Supports Mellanox X86 Mezzanine CPU
• 2 250W AC/DC fixed Power supplies
• 6 Fixed Fans with 5+1 redundancy
• On board temperature monitoring
• Reset Push button on front panel
• Front Panel indication LEDs:
• Status LED (Red / Yellow / Green)
• Fans Status LED (Red / Green)
• UID LED (Blue)
• Bad port LED (Yellow / Green)
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Figure 1: SX1016 Switch

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Overview