The HP FlexFabric 12900 switch series is a modular data center core switch designed to support virtualized data centers and the evolving needs of private and public cloud deployments. The FlexFabric 12900 switch delivers unprecedented levels of performance,buffering,scale. Ready for software-defined networking (SDN),the switch supports full layer 3 features and advanced data center features to build resilient scalable fabric and achieve convergence.