The BQN uses dedicated commercial off-the-shelf servers or virtual machines, configured according to the network capacity and connectivity requirements.

Supported CPUs

• Intel Xeon CPUs (Nehalem or later)
• AMD Epyc CPUs

Supported Hard Disks

• SATA
• SAS
• NMVe

Supported Network Interfaces

A BQN server needs at least three network ports: one for management and another two for packet processing. Ports for packet processing should be Intel-based, with one of the following controllers:

1 Gbps

• Intel I210
• Intel I350

10 Gbps

• Intel X520
• Intel X540
• Intel X550
• Intel X710
• Intel XL710

25 Gbps

• Intel XXV710
• Intel E810

40 Gbps

• Intel XL710

100 Gbps

• Intel E810

Other network interface models can be supported but with much lower throughput capacity (up to 1Gbps).

Supported Network Interface Transceivers

For optical interfaces, the transceivers must be Intel-compatible of one of the following types:

1G SFP

• 1000BASE-SX
• 1000BASE-LX

10G SFP+

• 10GBASE-SR/1000BASE-SX
• 10GBASE-LR/1000BASE-LX

25G SFP28

40G QSFP+

• 40GBASE-SR4
• 40GBASE-LR4

100G QSFP28

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