The HPE FlexFabric 5980 Switch is a 10 GbE Top-of-Rack (ToR) data center switch with 100G uplinks that delivers high performance and low latency. The switch is part of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise FlexFabric data center solution, which is a pillar of the FlexNetwork architecture, which offers a versatile solution for higher performance leaf requirements. It's suitable for use at the server access layer of large corporate data centres, as well as at the core layer of smaller companies.

The HPE FlexFabric5980 is designed to meet the rising demand for higher-performance server networking, Ethernet and storage traffic convergence, virtualization capacity, and low latency.

Prominent Features

  • For spine and leaf deployments, high-density 10GbE with 100G uplink is available, as well as 40GbE connections on the 100GbE ports.
  • Support for L2/L3 VXLAN and EVPN in virtualized environments.
  • Support for OpenFlow in software-defined network (SDN) environments for investment security.
  • HPE IMC unifies management.
  • With IRF, you can achieve data center integration and resiliency.

Featured Models

SKU # JQ026A     HPE FlexFabric 5980 48SFP+ 6QSFP28 Switch