About the Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5200-ON S5224F-ON
DELL EMC POWERSWITCH S5200-ON SERIES SWITCHES | High-performance, open networking 25GbE top-of-rack and 100GbE spine/leaf switches
The PowerSwitch S5200-ON 25/100GbE fixed switches comprise Dell Technologies' latest disaggregated hardware and software data center networking solutions, providing state-of-the-art, highdensity 25/100GbE ports and a broad range of functionality to meet the growing demands of today's data center environment. These innovative, next-generation open networking switches offer optimum flexibility and cost-effectiveness for web 2.0, enterprise, mid-market and cloud service provider with demanding compute and storage traffic environments.
The S5200-ON is a complete family of switches:12-port, 24-port, and 48-port 25GbE/100GbE ToR switches, 96-port 25GbE/100GbE Middle of Row (MoR)/End of Row (EoR) switch, and a 32-port 100GbE Multi-Rate Spine/Leaf switch. From the compact half-rack width S5212F-ON providing an ideal form factor for hyper-converged deployments, to the high density S5296F-ON for Middle of Row deployments, the S5200-ON series offers performance and flexibility for a variety of network designs.
In addition to 100GbE Spine/Leaf deployments, the S5232F-ON can also be used in high density deployments using breakout cables to achieve up to 128 10GbE or 128 25GbE ports.
Using industry-leading hardware and a choice of Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 or select 3rd party network operating systems and tools, the S5200-ON switches incorporate multiple architectural features that optimize data center network flexibility, efficiency and availability, including IO panel to PSU or PSU to IO panel airflow for hot/cold aisle environments, redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans and deliver non-blocking performance for workloads sensitive to packet loss.
Priority-based flow control (PFC), data center bridge exchange (DCBX) and enhanced transmission selection (ETS) make the S5200-ON family ideally suited for DCB environments.
Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5200-ON switches support the open source Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) for zero touch installation of Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10 networking operating system, as well as alternative network operating systems.
Key applications
- Organizations looking to enter the software-defined data center era with a choice of networking technologies designed to maximize flexibility
- High-density 10/25GbE ToR server aggregation in highperformance data center environments at the desired fabric speed with the S5248F-ON or S5296F-ON
- Low-density 10/25GbE server and storage aggregation with the S5212F-ON and S5224F-ON
- Small-scale Fabric implementation via the S5232F-ON switch in leaf and spine along with S5248F-ON 1/10/25GbE ToR switches enabling cost-effective aggregation of 10/25/40/50/100 uplinks