ZTELaunchesthe World's Largest Capacity Data Center Switches

24 September 2013,Shenzhen—ZTE today announced the release of the BigMatrix 9900 series of data center switches,the world's largest-capacity data center switches.

The BigMatrix 9900 product family comprises data switches with the largest capacity in the world.The switches are de⁃signed large cloud computing and big data scenarios and allow for higher-density deployment in data centers.Each single slot can support up to 144 10G ports,36 40G ports,or 12 100G ports.The Big Matrix 9900 series comprises four switch models—9916,9912,9908,and 9904—each of which supportsamaximumswitchingcapacity of 84.48 Tbps.

In big data systems,BigMatrix 9900 allows non-structured and non-relevant data to be extracted from existing databas⁃es.BigMatrix 9900 also has a modular system design and can be used to build a super-resilient non-blocking bi-direction⁃al forwardingplatformwith a switching capacity of 1.4 Pbps(1440 Tbps)in Fat-Treemode.