ZTE designs BigMatrix 9900 for large Cloud and Big Data

ZTE Corporation (ZTE) has announced the release of data center switches named BigMatrix 9900 series. This series is designed for large Cloud computing and big data scenarios to help the customers to achieve higher-density deployments in data centers. Each single slot can support up to 144 10G ports, or 36 40G ports, or 12 100G ports.
For big data systems, BigMatrix 9900 provides customers the capability to extract non-structured and non-relevant data from existing databases. BigMatrix 9900 also adopts modular system design, and can be used to build a super-resilient non-blocking bi-directional forwarding platform with the switching capacity of 1.4P (1,440T) in Fat-Tree mode.

BigMatrix 9900, packed with Cloud computing data center features, can implement virtual clusters of four devices and is capable of supporting eight-device virtualization multiplexing

Xu Ming, Senior Vice President, ZTE said, The BigMatrix 9900 is our flagship switch. Supporting smooth upgrade to 200T super large capacity, the BigMatrix 9900 helps protect customer investment and satisfies future service needs simultaneously.

The Big Matrix 9900 series comprises four models, 9916, 9912, 9908, and 9904, with each unit supporting maximum switching capacity of 84.48T. Big Matrix 9900 meets the oriented service architecture (OSA) standards.