Lenovo ThinkSystem NE2572 Rack Switch
- Performance: Line rate performance, up to 3.6Tbps aggregated throughput, as low as 480 ns (QSFP28) or 535 ns (SPP28) port to port switching latency, up to 2,678 Million packets per second (Mpps) (64 byte packets), up to 9,216-byte jumbo frames, buffer size: 22MB
- Interface Configurations: 48x 25Gb Ethernet ports supporting various combinations of:
- Up to 48x SFP28 25GbE SFP28 transceivers
- Up to 48x SFP+ 10GbE SFP+ transceivers
- Up to 48x SFP28 25GbE SFP28 DAC and AOC (Various lengths: 1m, 3m, 5m, etc.)
- Up to 48x SFP+ 10GbE SFP+ DAC and AOC (Various lengths: 1m, 3m, 5m, etc.)
- 6x 100Gb Ethernet ports supporting various combination of:
- Up to 6x QSFP28 100GbE QSFP28 transceivers
- Up to 6x QSFP 40GbE QSFP transceivers
- Up to 6x QSFP28 100Gb DAC cable or AOC cable (Various lengths: 1m, 3m, 5m, etc.)
- Up to 24x SFP28 25GbE ports using special (QSFP28 to 4xSFP28) break out DAC cable or optics with break-out fibers (Various lengths: 1m, 3m, 5m, etc.)
- Up to 12x QSFP28 50GbE ports using special (QSFP28 to 2xQSFP28) break out DAC cable or optics with break-out fibers (Various Lengths 1m, 3m, 5m, etc.)
- Up to 24x SFP+ 10GbE ports using special (QSFP to 4xSFP+) break out DAC cable or optics with break-out fibers. (Various lengths: 1m, 3m, 5m, etc.)
- Virtualization: VLAG, SDN ready
- Cooling: Front to rear or rear to front cooling, six variable speed hot swap fan assemblies that provide N+1 cooling redundancy
- Power: Dual load sharing hot swap internal power modules, 213W typical / 289W maximum consumption
- Management Software Supported: Lenovo XClarity, VMware, OpenStack, Nutanix, Ganglia
- Automation: Ansible, Chef, Puppet
- API: Python, REST, Telemetry
- Limited Warranty: 3 year customer replaceable unit and software warranty