Dell 5500 Series Specifications

Dell Networking 5500 Series
Dell Networking 5500 Gigabit Ethernet switches are scalable access switches that give you the power
and flexibility.
The Dell 5500 series switches are designed to offer secure,
fixed-port Gigabit Ethernet switching solutions to deliver
full wire-speed switching performance. With 24 or 48
built-in copper Gigabit Ethernet ports in a 1U form factor,
the 5500 series has a total switching capacity of up to 176
Gbps to support demanding network environments. The
switches also offer simple management and scalability
via a 40Gbps high-availability stacking architecture that
allows you to manage up to eight switches from a single
IP address, and share the dual SFP+ across the stack for
uplinks to the next layer in your network. The switches are
designed for Energy Efficient Ethernet (802.3az), which will
reduce per port power consumption up to 50% if the link
is idle, and further reduction if ports are inactive.
Stacking and 10Gb support
Your next deployment can be greatly simplified by utilizing
the built-in stacking and 10Gb capabilities of the 5500 series
of switches. Up to 400 ports can be managed from a single
IP address using the highly-available stacking architecture,
and the entire stack can be redundantly linked back to the
rest of the network at 10Gb via the dual SFP+ ports.
Robust security
Advanced security features of 5500 series switches
help protect the network from accidental or malicious
interference. Edge authentication using IEEE 802.1x
provides a meaningful security solution which is centralized
and easier to manage than standard ACLs. The 5500 series
provides password management for increased network
security, encrypted management traffic through SSL or
SSH, and secures SNMP access by filtering hosts based on
IP address. MAC-based port security is designed to prevent
unauthorized MAC addresses from accessing the network.
RADIUS and TACACS+ support enables centralized, remote
authentication of administrative access to the switch.
Advanced switching features
The 5500 series switches feature enhanced VLAN support
such as Voice VLANs and Guest VLANs. Other features
include LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol) which allows
for troubleshooting and enhanced network management
over multi-vendor environments, as well as LLDP-MED and
DHCP Snooping to further expand network security. The
switches also support USB auto-configuration so you can
rapidly deploy the switches in minutes without setting up
complex TFTP configurations or sending technical staff to
remote offices.
Easy, powerful enterprise management
The 5500 series switches feature many enterprise
management capabilities to help network administrators
optimize network traffic including QoS to support
VoIP-capable infrastructures, multicast support to help
reduce unnecessary network traffic, link aggregation
for expanded network bandwidth, and dynamic VLAN
configuration. The 5500 series switches can be managed
via a familiar and intuitive command line interface (CLI),
web GUI, third party SNMP-based management console
applications, Telnet, or serial connections.
Power over Ethernet (PoE) support
The 5500 series PoE switches offer PoE-per-port support
for power-dependent network applications including
WLAN Access Points (WAPs), Voice over IP (VoIP) handsets,
video conferencing and badge reading*. The 5524P
and 5548P switches can provide up to 15.4 watts of
power for network-attached devices on up to 24 ports
simultaneously, with the MPS-600 power module enabling
up to 48 ports.

Lifetime Warranty

Select Networking switches are backed
by an industry-leading, lifetime warranty
which guarantees Basic Hardware Service
(repair or replacement) for life. Details at
Dell.com/LifetimeWarranty**