• High-density 10GbE with 100G uplink for spine and leaf deployments, also supporting 40GbE connections on the 100GbE ports
• L2/L3 VXLAN and EVPN support for virtualized environments
• OpenFlow support for investment protection and software-defined network (SDN) environments
• Unify management with HPE IMC
• Data center convergence and resiliency with IRF

The HPE FlexFabric 5980 Switch Series is a high-performance and low-latency 10 GbE top-of-rack, data center switch designed to meet the increasing requirements for higher-performance server connectivity, convergence of Ethernet and storage traffic, the capability to handle virtual environments, and low latency. The switch includes 100Gbps uplink technology and is ideally suited for deployment at the aggregation or server access layer of large enterprise data centers or at the core layer of medium-sized enterprises.

What is new supporting point:
Unify management with HPE IMC.
Data center convergence and resiliency with IRF.
OpenFlow support for investment protection and software-defined network (SDN) environments.
High-density 10GbE with 100G uplink for spine and leaf deployments, also supporting 40GbE connections on the 100GbE ports.
L2/L3 VXLAN and EVPN support for virtualized environments.

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