What are the number of switch ports?

(1) cassette switch

The number of ports that a switch can provide is basically fixed for each type of box switch, generally providing 24 or 48 access ports and 2-4 upper connection ports.
Here, taking Huawei CE5850-48T4S2Q-EI as an example (as shown below), there are a total of 48 1000M ports, 4 10G uplink ports, and 2 40G uplink ports;
(2) Frame switch
The box switch is related to the number of single boards configured, generally referring to the maximum number of ports that each frame can support when configuring the highest density interface board.
Here, taking Huawei’s CE12804 as an example, it supports four service board LPUs, and the ports are related to the specific board model. We take the 36-port 100G board as an example, so there are a total of 144 100G ports plugged into the board.