Specifications

The 5901AF switch has 48 x 10/100/1000BASE-T, 4 x 1G/10G SFP+ and 2 x QSFP+ ports, dual hot-pluggable power supplies and fan trays, and ultra-low-latency. Ideally suited for deployment at the access layer and management network of medium-sized and large enterprise data centers.

Features | Maximize your HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5900 | What's New

• Introducing a new TAA-compliant top-of-rack switch with 48 × 1G Base-T, 4 × 10G SFP+, and 2 × 40G QSFP+ ports for secure and compliant deployments
• HPE Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF) technology provides greater resilience and scalability
• Cut-through with low-latency and varying wire speed performance
• Rich feature sets with IPv4 and IPv6 support Layer 2, Layer 3, and quality of service (QoS) / access control list (ACL) features.
• OpenFlow™ and NETCONF™ for automating manual tasks and improving service delivery
• Dual, redundant hot-pluggable power supplies with reversible airflow help reduce power consumption |

Low latency and multiple wire-speed for demanding applications in the data center environment

• The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5900 provides multiple wirespeed 10/100/1000BASE-T and 1/10/40G fiber ports for high-performance and flexible deployments.
• All ports support full L2/L3 features, IPv4/IPv6 dual stack, OpenFlow™, and NETCONF™ for high scalability and software-defined network (SDN) support.
• HPE Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF) stacking enables uninterrupted L2 switching and L3 forwarding, reducing operational complexity.

High-Performance data center switching

• The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5900 delivers 336 Gbps switching capacity for demanding applications.
• It supports up to 250 Mpps throughput for data-intensive environments.
• With low latency (under 1.5 µs for 10GbE), this switch series delivers increased network throughput. It also includes two 40GbE QSFP+ ports for blazing-fast uplinks.
• It supports zero touch provisioning (ZTP) eliminating human errors and accelerating ROI.