QLogic’s 9024 and 5000 Edge Fabric Switches are designed to provide a compact 1U solution for use in building small node count fabrics or for use as edge or leaf components together with QLogic's 9xx0 Fabric Directors in constructing large fabrics that can scale to thousands of nodes.

The QLogic 9024 is a 24-port 10Gbps SDR or 20Gbps DDR InfiniBand switch.

QLogic 9024 features:

• 24 ports (4X) in a 1U form factor
• Software definable 12x support
• Both SDR and DDR configurations
• Latency less than 140nsec
• Up to 960Gbps of fabric bandwidth available in each switch
• Internally or externally managed configurations
• Integrates seamlessly with all QLogic 9000 series Multi-Protocol Fabric Director products for Fibre Channel and Ethernet connectivity
• Fully redundant power and cooling configurations

The QLogic 5000 is a compact, modular InfiniBand switch and Virtual I/O Controller (VIC).

QLogic 5000 features:

• 12 SDR 4x InfiniBand switch ports
• 2 Virtual I/O Controller slots
• 3 Port, 1Gbps Ethernet Virtual I/O Controller module
• 2 Port, Fibre Channel Virtual I/O Controller module
• Latency less than 140nsec
• 240Gbps, non-blocking system capacity
• Non-disruptive code load and activation
• Intelligent, remotely manageable in-band or out-of-band
• High availability design including redundant power (AC and DC) and cooling