The HPE FlexFabric 5980 Switch is a high-performance and low-latency 10GbE top-of-rack (ToR) data center switch with 100 G uplinks. The switch provides a powerful solution for higher performance leaf requirements and is part of the HPE FlexFabric data center solution, which is a cornerstone of the Cloud-First Reference Architecture (CFRA). The FlexFabric 5980 Switch is ideally suited for deployment at the server access layer of large enterprise data centers, or at the core layer of smaller enterprises.