The low-power and affordable rugged VPX3-6816 3U VPX Ethernet Switch card is designed and optimized to deliver the low-latency, high-speed Ethernet backbone required by modern aerospace and defense sensor processing architectures and supports a rich set of multi-layer L2 switching and L3 routing features. The Ethernet Switch supports up to thirty-three (33) Ethernet ports with any mix of 1, 10, 25, 40, 50, and 100GbE port speeds. In addition to being aligned with the Open Group SOSA Technical Standard, the VPX3-6816 is also available in configurations that support numerous existing OpenVPX profiles.