The new flexible, open networking (ON) products help enterprise customers move toward software-defined networks and prepare for the future-ready data centre. The range of switching speeds (1 to 100GbE) offered provides customers flexibility for the life of their technology investment.We believe that managing a data centre should be simple," said Mak Chin Wah, GM, Enterprise Solutions, Dell South Asia. "It should be like a power plant. When you switch on the light, you don't have to worry about the power grid. For that capability have to look at software-defined data centres."
Mak said the launch is "another example of Dell helping our customers to future proof and accelerate the financial and performance rewards the software-defined data centre promises". "The new products announced today offer customers complete flexibility to take advantage of open networking environments and new computing models as well as the revenue streams these network infrastructures will allow," he said.
The switches reaffirm the company’s commitment to customer-centric open architectures as opposed to proprietary stacks. These switches support the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) to allow for a zero-touch install of all pre-qualified operating systems, including Dell Networking OS9 and third party options.
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| Source: Dell. The Networking Z9100 switch. |
Dell Networking Z9100 is a state-of-the-art 100GbE fabric switch in a 1RU fixed form factor for aggregation and access layers, offering multi-rate switching at 10/25/40/50/100GbE. The Z9100 is designed for cloud, high performance computing (HPC) and Web 2.0 applications that require a range of options in switching rates in high-density environments. It excels in big data analysis situations and where other high performance, low latency requirements exist. The fabric switch offers up to seven times the density per RU versus a competing switch*.
"Dell is finding new ways to help reduce complexity in networking. The Dell Networking Z9100 is a ‘Swiss Army knife’ of connectivity that makes it suitable for almost any environment. Additionally, with open networking becoming standard on products going forward, the complexity of buying and deploying across a wide range of environments has been greatly simplified," said John Fruehe, Senior Analyst, Moor Insights & Strategy.
The Dell Networking S4048 is a low-latency 10/40GbE top-of-rack (ToR) switch designed for the software-defined data centre. With advanced features such as large hardware table support, VXLAN and expanding buffering, it is designed for web and cloud service providers with Linux and open source-heavy environments. The S4048 provides a low latency 10GbE switching in HPC and business sensitive deployments that require the highest bandwidth and low latency, while cutting in half the latency versus a competing switch**.
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| Source: Dell. The Networking S3048 switch. |
The Dell Networking S3048 is built for efficiency and performance and is useful for enterprise and mid-market customers with an existing 1GbE installed base. It is Dell’s first entry into 1GbE open networking switching. The S3048 is a ToR equipped with next-generation 1GbE silicon, a complete OS9 feature set including VLT, OpenFlow, Open Automation, Cloud Stack integration with OpenStack, Microsoft, VMware, Docker and others, while offering up to half the power consumption and prices up to 50% less than the current generation of Dell 1GbE switches.
Dell today also announced IP Infusion as a new ecosystem partner in support of its Open Networking initiative. IP Infusion is a provider of intelligent network software for telecom and data communications services. The company recently announced OcNOS, a network operating system for data centre and enterprise networking.
"As enterprises and service providers see the promise of SDN-based network data centres, they are requiring the flexibility, extensive enterprise and data center feature sets, high degree of scalability and modularity that OcNOS provides. By collaborating with Dell, customers will have a key tool in their toolbox to create large-scale data centres which are much faster, simpler and more affordable than current solutions," said Kiyo Oishi, CEO and President, IP Infusion.
The Dell Networking Z9100 is currently in customer trials and is expected to be available in the second half of 2015, while the Dell Networking S4048-ON is available now. The Dell Networking S3048-ON will be available in May 2015.
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*Based on Dell internal analysis versus Cisco Nexus 9504, April 2015.
**Based on Dell internal analysis versus Cisco Nexus 5672, April 2015.
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