Overview:
The S5448F-ON 100/400GbE fixed switch comprises Dell Technologies’ latest disaggregated hardware and software data center networking solutions, providing state-of-theart, high-density 100/400 GbE ports and a broad range of functionality to meet the growing demands of today’s data center environment. This innovative, next-generation open networking high-density aggregation switch offers optimum flexibility and cost-effectiveness for the web 2.0, enterprise, mid-market and cloud service providers with demanding compute and storage traffic environments.
The compact PowerSwitch S5448F-ON provides industryleading density of up to 48 ports of 100GbE (SFP56-DD) and 8 ports of 400GbE (QSFP56-DD), in a 1RU design.
Using industry-leading hardware and a choice of Dell SmartFabric OS10 or select 3rd party network operating systems and tools, the S5448F-ON switch incorporates multiple architectural features that optimize data center network flexibility, efficiency and availability, including IO panel to PSU airflow or PSU to IO panel airflow* for hot/ cold aisle environments, redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans, and delivers non-blocking performance for workloads sensitive to packet loss.** The compact S5448F-ON provides multi-rate speed, enabling denser footprints and simplifying migration to 100 and 400Gbps.
Priority-based flow control (PFC), data center bridge exchange (DCBX) and enhanced transmission selection (ETS) make the S5448F-ON ideally suited for DCB environments.
The Dell PowerSwitch S5448F-ON switch supports the open source Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) for zero touch installation of Dell SmartFabric OS10 networking operating system, as well as of alternative network operating systems.
Key applications
- Organizations looking to enter the softwaredefined data center era with a choice of networking technologies designed to maximize flexibility
- High-density multi-rate 100/400GbE ToR server aggregation in high-performance data center environments at the desired fabric speed
- Small-scale fabric implementation via the S5448FON switch in leaf and spine along with S-series 10/25/40/50/100GbE ToR switches enabling costeffective aggregation of 100/400 uplinks
- High-density 10/25/40/50/100GbE ToR server access in high-performance data center environments
- Multi-functional 10/25/40/50/100/200/400GbE switching in High Performance Computing clusters or other business-sensitive deployments requiring the highest bandwidth
- iSCSI and FCOE deployment, including DCB converged lossless transactions
Innovative data center architectural agility with 25/40/50/100GbE switches
Gain the flexibility to transform your data centers with high-capacity network fabrics that are easy to deploy, cost-effective and provide a clear path to a software-defined data center. They offer:
- High density for 25/40/50/100GbE deployments in top-of-rack, middle-of-row, and end-of-row deployments
- An ideal solution for modern workloads and applications designed for the open networking era
Optimized for the open networking era
Get more agility, more choices and lower costs than proprietary networks with select open-standards-based ON (open networking) switches.
- Disaggregated-hardware/software solutions bring new levels of freedom and flexibility to your data center.
- Support for Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) enables zero-touch installation of alternate network operating systems.
- Your choice of network operating system helps simplify data-center fabric orchestration and automation.
- A broad ecosystem of open-source and Linux-based applications and tools provides more options to optimize and manage your network.
Ready for software-defined networking
Deploy modern workloads and applications while providing an easy on-ramp to software-defined networking (SDN).
- Support for OpenFlow v1.3 provides interoperability with industry-standard OpenFlow controllers.
- VXLAN Layer 2 Gateway enabling allows connection to hypervisor-based overlay networks.
- Third-party OS support provides an easy entry point to SDN for part or all of your production environment.
*Note that units configured in the PSU to IO airflow direction are subject to tighter restrictions for power consumptions on cables and optics used for 100 and 400GbE ports
**Non-blocking for >364-Byte packets
Features:
Key Features
- 1RU high-density 100/400GbE aggregation switch with up to 48 ports of 100GbE (SFP56-DD) and up to 8 ports of 400GbE (QSFP56-DD)
- Multi-rate 100GbE ports support 10/25/50/100GbE. Multi-rate 400GbE ports support 10/25/40/50/100/200/400GbE
- Scalable L2 and L3 Ethernet switching with QoS and a full complement of standards-based IPv4 and IPv6 features, including OSPF and BGP routing support
- 16Tbps non-blocking (full duplex), switching fabric delivers line-rate performance* under full load on S5448F-ON
- L2 multipath support via Virtual Link Trunking (VLT) and Routed VLT support
- Support for Dell SmartFabric OS10
- Converged network support for DCB, with priority flow control (802.1Qbb), ETS (802.1Qaz), DCBx and iSCSI TLV support
- S5448F-ON supports Routable RoCE to enable convergence of compute and storage on Active Fabric
- IO panel to PSU airflow or PSU to IO panel airflow
- Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans
- Supports the open source Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) for zero touch installation of alternate network operating systems
- Accelerated mounting kits reducing time and resources for switch rack installation
- Power-efficient operation up to 45°C helping reduce cooling costs in temperature-constrained deployments
Key Features with Dell SmartFabric OS10
- Consistent DevOps framework across compute, storage and networking elements
- Standard networking features, interfaces and scripting functions for legacy network operations integration
- Standards-based switching hardware abstraction via Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI)
- Pervasive, unrestricted developer environment via Control Plane Services (CPS)
- Dell SmartFabric OS10 software enables Dell layer 2 and 3 switching and routing protocols with integrated IP services, quality of service, manageability and automation features
- OS10 supports Precision Time Protocol (PTP, IEEE 1588v2) to synchronize clocks on network devices.
- Leverage common open source tools and best practices (data models, commit rollbacks)
- Increase VM Mobility region by stretching L2 VLAN within or across two DCs with unique VLT capabilities
- Scalable L2 and L3 Ethernet Switching with QoS, ACL and a full complement of standards based IPv4 and IPv6 features including OSPF, BGP and PBR
- Enhanced mirroring capabilities including local mirroring, Remote Port Mirroring (RPM), and Encapsulated Remote Port Mirroring (ERPM)
- Converged network support for Data Center Bridging, with priority flow control (802.1Qbb), ETS (802.1Qaz), DCBx and iSCSI TLV
*Non-blocking for >364-Byte packets
Specifications:
| Dell S5448F-ON Specifications |
| S5448F-ON |
S5448F-ON, 48x 100GbE SFP56-DD, 8x 400GbE QSFP56-DD, 2x AC PSU, Fan module, I/O Panel to PSU Airflow
S5448F-ON, 48x 100GbE SFP56-DD, 8x 400GbE QSFP56-DD, 2x AC PSU, Fan module, I/O Panel to PSU Airflow, TAA Certified
S5448F-ON, 48x 100GbE SFP56-DD, 8x 400GbE QSFP56-DD, 2x AC PSU, Fan module, PSU to I/O Panel Airflow*
S5448F-ON, 48x 100GbE SFP56-DD, 8x 400GbE QSFP56-DD, 2x AC PSU, Fan module, PSU to I/O Panel Airflow*, TAA Certified |
| Dell SW configurations |
Dell SmartFabric OS10
Enterprise SONiC Distribution by Dell Technologies***
No OS - ONIE bootloader only |
| Redundant power supplies |
AC Power Supply, IO Panel to PSU Airflow
AC Power Supply, PSU to IO Panel Airflow
DC Power Supply, IO Panel to PSU Airflow****
DC Power Supply, PSU to IO Panel Airflow**** |
| Fans |
Fan module, IO Panel to PSU Airflow
Fan module, PSU to IO Panel Airflow |
| Optics |
400GbE, SR8 QSFP56-DD Transceiver
400GbE, SR4.2 QSFP56-DD Transceiver
400GbE, eDR4 (2 km) QSFP56-DD Transceiver
400GbE, FR4 QSFP56-DD Transceiver
400GbE, LDR4 QSFP56-DD*** Transceiver
400GbE, LR4 QSFP56-DD*** Transceiver
400GbE, ER4-LITE QSFP56-DD*** Transceiver
400GbE, ZR QSFP56-DD*** Transceiver
100GbE, FR SFP56-DD Transceiver
100GbE, LR SFP56-DD Transceiver
Note that QSFP56-DD multi-rate ports also support our existing line of 200GbE (QSFP28-DD), 100GbE (QSFP28) and
40GbE (QSFP+) optics. SFP56-DD multi-rate ports also support our existing line of 25GbE (SFP28) and 10GbE (SFP+)
optics. |
| Cables |
400GbE, QSFP56-DD to QSFP56-DD, active optical
400GbE, QSFP56-DD to QSFP56-DD, passive DAC
400GbE, QSFP56-DD to QSFP56-DD, active copper cable (ACC)
400GbE, 4x100GbE, QSFP56-DD to 4xQSFP28, active copper cable (ACC) breakout
400GbE, 4x100GbE, QSFP56-DD to 4xQSFP56 (depop), passive DAC breakout***
400GbE, 2x200GbE, QSFP56-DD to 2xQSFP56, passive DAC breakout***
100GbE, SFP56-DD to QSFP56 (depop), passive DAC
Note that QSFP56-DD multi-rate ports also support our existing line of 200GbE (QSFP28-DD), 100GbE (QSFP28) and 40GbE (QSFP+) cables and break-outs. SFP56-DD multi-rate ports also support our existing line of 25GbE (SFP28) and 10GbE (SFP+) cables. |
| Cable management |
Cable Breakout solution for MTP12 to 4xLC and MTP24 to 2xMTP12 or 4xLC available. See separate Structured Cabling offering. |
Physical
- 1 RJ45 console/management port with RS232 signaling and Micro USB-B port
- 1 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet for management
- 1 USB 2.0 type A storage port 48x100GbE SFP56-DD + 8x400GbE QSFP56- DD ports + 2xSFP+ 10GbE
- Chassis
- Size: 1 RU, 1.7”h x 17.3”w x 21.7”d (4.3 x 43.85w x 55.0d cm)
- Weight: 25.73lbs (11.67 kg) with PSU/Fans installed
- Environmental
- Power supply: 100–240 VAC 50/60 Hz
- Max Power consumption: 920 Watts
- Typ. Power consumption: 250 Watts
- Max Operating specifications:
- AC Max. Operating specifications: Operating temperature: 32° to 113°F (0° to 45°C)
- Operating humidity: 5 to 90% (RH), non-condensing
- Max. Non-operating specifications:
- Storage temperature: 70° to 158°F (–40° to 70°C)
- Storage humidity: 5 to 95% (RH), noncondensing
- Fresh air Compliant to 45°C
- Supports AC both lowline and highline power modes
- Redundancy
- Hot swappable redundant power (2 per switch, 1 + 1 redundancy)
- Hot swappable redundant fan trays (6 fan trays per switch, 2 fan rotors per tray, 11 + 1 fan rotor redundancy)
- Performance*
- Switch fabric capacity: 16Tbps (full duplex)
- Forwarding capacity: 2.6Bpps
- Latency: sub 1135ns
- Packet buffer memory: 82MB
- NPU Pipeline is programmable using NPL
- CPU: Intel Denverton C3758 8 Core @ 2.2GHz
- CPU memory: 32GB DDR4 ECC
- MAC addresses: Up to 256K
- ARP table: Up to 192K
- IPv4 routes: Up to 875K (ALPM)
- IPv6 routes: 310K (IPv6/64 ALPM), 240K (IPv6/128 ALPM)
- Multicast routes: 16K (IPMC Table)
- Layer 2 VLANs: 4K MSTP: 64 instances
- LAG load balancing: Based on layer 2, IPv4 or IPv6 headers
- Timing Card PTP/1588 and Sync-E
- Trusted Platform Module (on TAA SKUs only)
- Supports up to 5W optics in all 48 SFP56-DD ports (3.5W on all 48 SFP56-DD, with 24 of them scaling up to 5W optics in PSU/ IO airflow direction)
- Supports up to 15W optics in all 8 QSFP56-DD ports, with 4 of them scaling up to 18W optics (6W optics on all 8 QSFP56-DD ports, with 4 of them scaling up to 10W optics in PSU/IO airflow direction)
Regulatory compliance
- Safety
- UL/CSA 60950-1, Second Edition
- EN 60950-1, Second Edition
- IEC 60950-1, Second Edition Including All National Deviations and Group Differences
- EN 60825-1 Safety of Laser Products Part 1: Equipment Classification Requirements and User’s Guide
- EN 60825-2 Safety of Laser Products Part 2: Safety of Optical Fibre Communication Systems
- FDA Regulation 21 CFR 1040.10 and 1040.11 Emissions
- Emissions & Immunity
- EN 300 386 V1.4.1:2008 for Network Equipment
- EN 55024: 1998 + A1: 2001 + A2: 2003
- EN 61000-3-2: Harmonic Current Emissions
- EN 61000-3-3: Voltage Fluctuations and Flicker
- EN 61000-4-2: ESD
- EN 61000-4-3: Radiated Immunity
- EN 61000-4-4: EFT
- EN 61000-4-5: Surge
- EN 61000-4-6: Low Frequency Conducted Immunity
- RoHS
- All S-Series components are EU RoHS compliant
- Certifications
- Available with US Trade Agreements Act (TAA) compliance
- USGv6 Host and Router Certified on Dell Networking OS 9.5 and greater
- IPv6 Ready for both Host and Router
- UCR DoD APL (core and distribution ALSAN switch
- Warranty
IEEE Compliance
- 802.1AB LLDP
- TIA-1057 LLDP-MED
- 802.3ad Link Aggregation
- 802.1D Bridging, STP
- 802.1p L2 Prioritization
- 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
- 802.1Qbb PFC
- 802.1Qaz ETS
- 802.1X Network Access Control
- 802.3ac Frame Extensions for VLAN Tagging
- 802.3x Flow Control Jumbo MTU support 9,216 bytes
- 802.3by Optical fiber, twinax and backplane 25 Gigabit Ethernet
- Layer2 Protocols
- 802.1D Compatible
- 802.1p L2 Prioritization
- 802.1Q VLAN Tagging
- 802.1s MSTP
- 802.1w RSTP
- 802.1t RPVST+
- VLT (Virtual Link Trunking)
- VRRP Active/Active
- RSTP & RPVST+
- Port Mirroring on VLT ports
- DCB, iSCSI, FIP Snooping Bridge
- RPM/ERPM over VLT
- VLT Minloss upgrade
RFC Compliance
- 768 UDP
- 793 TCP
- 854 Telnet
- 959 FTP
- 1321 MD5
- 1350 TFTP
- 2474 Differentiated Services
- 2698 Two Rate Three Color Marker
- 3164 Syslog
- 4254 SSHv2
- General IPv4 protocols
- 791 IPv4
- 792 ICMP
- 826 ARP
- 1027 Proxy ARP
- 1035 DNS (client)
- 1042 Ethernet Transmission
- 1305 NTPv4
- 1519 CIDR
- 1812 Routers, Static Routes
- 1858 IP Fragment Filtering
- 2131 DHCPv4 (server and relay)
- 5798 VRRPv3
- 3021 31-bit Prefixes
- 1812 Requirements for IPv4 Routers
- 1918 Address Allocation for Private Internets
- 2474 Diffserv Field in IPv4 and Ipv6 Headers
- 2597 Assured Forwarding PHB Group
- 3195 Reliable Delivery for Syslog
- 3246 Expedited Forwarding PHB Group VRF(BGP v4/v6)
- General IPv6 Protocols
- 1981 Path MTU Discovery
- 2372 IPv6 Addressing
- 2460 IPv6 Protocol Specification
- 2461 Neighbor Discovery
- 2462 Stateless Address AutoConfig
- 2711 IPv6 Router alert
- 2463 ICMPv6
- 2464 Ethernet Transmission
- 2675 IPv6 Jumbo grams
- 3484 Default Address Selection
- 3493 Basic Socket Interface
- 4291 Addressing Architecture
- 3542 Advanced Sockets API
- 3587 Global Unicast Address Format
- 4291 IPv6 Addressing
- 2464 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
- 2711 IPv6 Router Alert Option
- 4007 IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture
- 4213 Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
- 3633 DHCPv6 Relay
- OSPF
- 1745 OSPF/BGP interaction
- 1765 OSPF Database overflow
- 2154 OSPF with DigitalSignatures
- 2328 OSPFv2
- 5340 OSPF for IPv6 (OSPFv3)
- 2370 Opaque LSA
- 3101 OSPF NSSA
- 4552 OSPFv3 Authentication
- Multicast
- 2236 IGMPv2 Snooping
- 3810 MLDv2 Snooping
- Security
- 2865 RADIUS
- 3162 Radius and IPv6
- 3579 Radius support for EAP
- 3580 802.1X with RADIUS
- 3826 AES Cipher in SNMP
- 1492 TACACS (Authentication, Accounting) Control Plane, VTY & SNMP ACLs
- IP Access Control Lists
- BGP
- 1997 Communities
- 2385 MD5
- 2439 Route Flap Damping
- 2796 Route Reflection
- 2918 Route Refresh
- 3065 Confederations
- 4271 BGP-4
- 2545 BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
- 2858 Multiprotocol Extensions
- 4360 Extended Communities
- 4893 4-byte ASN
- 5396 4-byte ASN Representation
- 5492 Capabilities Advertisement
- 7911 BGP Add Path
- 8365 EVPN
- Linux Distribution
- Debian Linux version 9
- Linux Kernel 4.9
- Network Management and Monitoring
- SNMPv1/2c
- IPv4/IPv6 Management support (Telnet, FTP, TACACS, RADIUS, SSH, NTP)
- Syslog
- Port Mirroring
- RPM/ERPM
- 3176 SFlow
- Support Assist (Phone Home)
- RestConf APIs (Layer 2 features)
- XML Schema
- CLI Commit (Scratchpad)
- Uplink Failure Detection
- Object Tracking
- Automation
- Control Plane Services APIs
- Linux Utilities and Scripting Tools
- CLI Automation (Multiline Alias)
- Zero Touch Deployment (ZTD)
- Quality of Service
- Prefix List
- Route-Map
- Rate Shaping (Egress)
- Rate Policing (Ingress)
- Scheduling Algorithms
- Round Robin
- Weighted Round Robin
- Deficit Round Robin
- Strict Priority
- Weighted Random Early Detect
- Data center bridging
- 802.1Qbb Priority-Based Flow Control
- 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)
- Explicit Congestion Notification
- Data Center Bridging eXchange (DCBx)
- DCBx Application TLV (iSCSI, FCoE)
- RoCEv2
- Software Defined Networking
- MIBS
- IP MIB
- IP Forward MIB
- Host Resources MIB
- IF MIB
- LLDP EXT1/3 MIB
- Entity MIB
- LAG MIB
- Dell-Vendor MIB
- TCP MIB
- UDP MIB
- SNMPv2 MIB
- ETHERLIKE-MIB
- SFLOW-MIB
- PFC-MIB
*Maximum NPU and hardware performance, please refer to specific Network Operating System scalability numbers for actual validated values.
