The 6600 24-G-4XG has 24 1Gbps RJ-45 ports, four 1Gbps SFP ports and four 10Gbps SFP+ interfaces. It has a switching capacity of 101Gbps and a throughput of 74 million packets/sec.

The 6600-48G features 48 1Gbps RJ-45 ports, four 1Gbps SFP ports, a 96Gbps switch fabric and throughput of 72 million packets/sec. The 6600-48G-4XG has four 10Gbps SFP+ ports instead of the four 1Gbps SFP interfaces. It has a switching capacity of 152Gbps and a throughput of 131 million packets/sec.

The 6600 24-XG has 24 10Gbps SFP+ ports, a switching capacity of 336Gbps and a throughput of 214 million packets/sec.

HP ProCurve also is unveiling a management application designed to provide automated, policy-based provisioning of network and server resources. The ProCurve Data Center Connection Manager coordinates common data center workflow activities, helps ease compliance and troubleshooting, and works with multivendor servers and networks, HP says.

The server module for HP ProCurve's 8200 and 5400 zl switches is called the It is based on an Intel T7500 Core 2 Duo processor with 4GB of memory, 4GB of Flash memory and a 250GB hard drive.