Switch
13 switch entries.
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Your first proper rack switch. Every port runs full gigabit at once, with room for a full half-rack of servers.
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Ten-gig on every port, plus two faster uplinks so you don't have to combine four cables to feed it.
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A middle-layer switch — 24 ports gather traffic from the rack switches below, 4 fast uplinks carry it to the backbone above.
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Twenty-four copper ports plus two faster ten-gig fibre uplinks. The first switch that lets you feed a proper next layer of the network.
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Bigger rack switch. A common pick when you're still on copper cabling and the rack is packed.
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Backbone switch — the top of the network. Every rack switch talks through these.
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A backbone switch that moves twice as much per port as the hundred-gig class. Modern, but not the bleeding edge.
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Hyperscale backbone switch. Four-hundred-gig per port; one of these does the work of two earlier backbone layers.
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Wider switch — 36 ten-gig ports plus two faster uplinks you can combine into one fat link to the next layer.
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Forty-eight ten-gig server ports plus four proper forty-gig uplinks — no more combining cables together to feed the next layer.
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Top-of-the-rack workhorse. Wires up a full datacenter row of ten-gig servers.
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The building block of a big network: 48 server ports plus 6 fast uplinks to the backbone switches. One per rack, each one cabled to every backbone switch.
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Forty-eight copper ports plus four ten-gig fibre uplinks. The wide copper access switch for a fully-populated rack of gigabit hosts.