Portfolio: Dell Networking
Dell
Networking
solutions
Ready to take on today’s new IT
challenges? Meet the new Dell.
Enterprise networking is in the midst of a significant
transformation. With the advent of cloud computing, workplace
mobility, diversity of business devices, data center consolidation
and the way in which software and applications are consumed,
IT managers face tremendous challenges to more effectively
control their networks.
Dell has evolved to help you meet these new challenges. By
offering end-to-end solutions, including highly integrated, yet
scalable options for mission-critical business workloads, Dell
provides the flexibility, visibility and tools IT managers need to
meet their most important business requirements.
Dell solutions allow you to do more by accelerating operational
efficiency, protecting your infrastructure investments and
building for the future with our unprecedented commitment
to open standards for ultimate scalability and maximum
interoperability.
Dell’s focus is tightly aligned to your current and future needs
by helping you to:
• Transform by accelerating adoption from virtualization
to convergence to cloud
• Connect by embracing consumerization trends including
bring your own device (BYOD) and beyond
• Inform by turning data into insights
• Protect by overcoming evolving security threats and
ensuring compliance
Dell Networking portfolio
Dell has been delivering high-performance, reliable networking
solutions for over a decade and today powers some of the
world’s most demanding enterprise, cloud/web 2.0 and campus
environments. For data centers, this means feature-rich, open
networking top-of-rack and blade switching solutions, and
high-performance 10/40GbE networking fabrics that fit your
business and budget. For campus and branch environments,
this means complete solutions to securely mobilize users,
desktops and devices, and meet the fast-paced needs of
business on the go. Throughout, Dell adds advanced
management software to help you save time and money while
helping to simplify the complex. Dell’s comprehensive portfolio
and end-to-end solutions are uniquely suited to help you and
your business excel.
Get more from your data center
Dell Networking Active Fabric solutions for data centers are
high-performance, scalable and open solutions that meet the
requirements of even the most demanding enterprise
environments. Engineered from the ground up and empowered
by robust network automation and orchestration software, these
solutions deliver uncompromising performance and efficiency
and provide feature-rich flexibility for any size deployment you
may require. Active Fabric solutions include the Dell Networking
Z-Series, S-Series and our industry-leading 1/10/40GbE blade
switching products for high-performance data center
applications. The Dell Networking N-Series family of 1GbE and
10GbE switches and the Dell Networking W-Series are designed
to modernize the way employees, guests and devices connect in
campus, branch and small offices.
Enjoy peace of mind knowing that all of our data center Campus and branch networking
switching systems are powered by the industry-hardened and
feature-rich Dell Networking OS 9 for maximum dependability Access, aggregation and core switches Chassis core
and uptime. Additionally, the Dell Networking Open Automation Dell Networking
C7004 and
Framework™ and orchestration software simplifies management C7008 switches
for virtualized environments and streamlines operations to Dell
cost-effectively scale to the largest capacity data centers. This Dell Networking
helps you significantly improve your return on investment Networking 3500
2800
through unparalleled business and technology value.
Dell Active Fabric architectures can be easily designed,
implemented and managed with Dell Active Fabric Manager Dell Dell Dell
Networking Networking Networking
(AFM) software. This new and innovative software has been N3000
N2000 N4000
specifically designed as an automation and orchestration
tool for the entire fabric. Making it easy for enterprise IT
departments to deploy the latest networking innovations, Networking solutions
Dell AFM automates tasks associated with designing, building
and monitoring data center fabrics, reducing fabric design Are you ready for increased mobility?
and deployment time by up to 86 percent* compared Highly secure, simple to deploy and easy to manage, Dell
to manual configurations. Networking W-Series wireless products deliver industry-leading
connectivity for enterprise mobility. The Dell Networking
Having disaggregated the data center chassis switch with W-Series provides highly differentiated context-aware access
ActiveFabric, and simplifying management with Active Fabric policies based on the type of user, device, application and
Manager, we took the next step by decoupling the control location, and provides you the flexibility of using any mobile
plane and data plane elements within our fabric switches. One or computing device when implementing a BYOD access policy.
way to do thiswas by making our switches OpenFlow-enabled,
the very seed of SDN. But organizations are looking at a variety
How are you managing BYOD and guest access?
The Dell Networking W-Series ClearPass Access Management
of other ways to get similar functionality such as network
System™ provides you with unparalleled simplicity for managing
overlays. Dell is the only networking vendor to support
and securing network access across wireless, wired and virtual
multiple, interoperable approaches to SDN — we call it an
private networks (VPNs). Ideal for BYOD provisioning and
agnostic approach — that gives our customers options for how
onboarding, ClearPass enables a secure network connection
they choose to architect and deploy their data center networks.
for any IT-issued, personal computing or mobile device.
Data center networking By centralizing access policies across the entire network,
Fixed configuration core and top-of-rack switches ClearPass automates differentiated user and device access,
policy management and the provisioning of devices
for secure access and posture assessment.
Dell Networking Dell Networking Dell Networking Dell Networking Dell Networking Wireless networking
S55 S60 S5000 S6000* S4810*/S4820T
Access points
*Open Networking version available Dell Networking W-AP204/W-AP205 Enterprise-level, 2x2 MIMO, dual radio

Dell Networking W-AP214/W-AP215 High-performance, 3x3 MIMO, dual radio

Chassis core
Dell Networking Dell Networking Dell Networking W-AP224/W-AP225/ Latest Gigabit wireless 802.11ac, 3x3
Dell Networking E-Series
Z9000 Z9500 W-AP274/W-AP275 MIMO, dual radio
virtualized switches
Dell Networking W-AP134/W-AP135/
High-performance, 3x3 MIMO, dual radio
W-AP114/W-AP115
Ready your campus network for
Dell Networking W-AP104/W-AP105
next-generation demands (Outdoor model: W-AP175)
Mainstream, 2x2 MIMO, dual radio
Dell Networking products provide a full suite of campus
Dell Networking W-AP103/W-AP103H Entry-level, 2x2 MIMO, dual radio
and branch networking solutions designed for wiring closet
environments and workgroup connectivity. Gain maximum
ease of use, reliability, control and scale with fixed port, Controllers

stackable Ethernet switches and modular Dell Networking Dell Networking W-7000 Series Campus and branch
C-Series chassis-based switches. Provide Power over Ethernet High-density headquarters or large
Dell Networking W-7200 Series
(PoE) for wireless devices and enable voice over IP (VoIP) campus
phones and unified communications. These switches also Dell Networking W-3000 Series Medium to large enterprise
include built-in storage networking capabilities to simplify Dell Networking W-650 Small office or branch office
your connectivity and deliver maximum choice and value
at any scale. Guest access and BYOD

Up to 25,000 daily authenticating

Dell W-Series ClearPass devices. ClearPass is pre-loaded to a
500/5000/25,000 Dell server or available as software
only (Virtual machine for VMware™).
Simplify the complex
For campus and branch environments, Dell OpenManage™
Network Manager (OMNM) offers simplified, yet robust
network management. Confidently and proactively monitor
and manage your network with geographical or logical views,
report generation, inventory management and simultaneous
rollout of changes across multiple devices. Dell OMNM
and Dell Fabric Manager work in conjunction with
automation and orchestration capabilities integrated
into Dell Networking OS.

Network management

Automation and orchestration

Fabric Element
management management

Embedded Dell Networking OS capabilities

Bare metal Smart Virtual server Programmatic

provisioning scripting networking management

Embrace convergence
Dell Active Infrastructure integrates compute, storage and
networking into scalable platforms to deliver comprehensive,
on-demand virtualized compute and storage capabilities.
These solutions include:
Dell Networking S5000 unified storage switch: This unique,
modular 1RU top-of-rack solution delivers converged
networking and 40GbE uplinks for core connectivity. Data
centers deploying Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE), Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and RDMA over Converged
Ethernet (RoCE) networks can easily optimize and converge
communications into 10GbE with the Dell Networking S5000
switch for maximum flexibility, producing opportunities to
decrease overall operational and capital expenses.
Dell Networking 10/40GbE MXL blade switch: This industry-
leading solution combines high-density 10GbE local fabric
switching coupled with high-speed 40GbE uplinks for core
connectivity. Dell PowerEdge™ servers and storage solutions
work seamlessly with the Dell Networking 10/40GbE MXL blade
switch to enable maximum agility with an attractive total cost
of ownership.
Dell Active Systems: This latest offering within the Dell Active
Infrastructure family leverages unified management, converged
local area network (LAN)/storage area network (SAN) factors and
bladed form factors for easy deployment and unified operation.
Dell PowerEdge VRTX: This revolutionary and fully integrated,
scalable and easy-to-manage shared infrastructure platform
integrates up to four Dell PowerEdge M-Series server nodes plus
storage, networking and management in a single chassis. Only
the size of a typical two-socket tower server, the PowerEdge
VRTX offers office-friendly acoustics and plugs directly into a
standard wall outlet.
Revitalize SAN connectivity
Dell Networking solutions for storage can help your
organization — regardless of size — derive the full value of your
IT investments while protecting intellectual property.
Our open, standards-based solutions let you integrate new
technologies without sacrificing performance or existing
IT investments.
Better together: Dell Networking and Dell Storage
Dell PowerVault™ Dell EqualLogic™
family family
Cost-effective Power with
and scalable simplicity
Dell Networking
Various Dell Networking solutions are validated to work
optimally with Dell Storage solutions.
Solutions to fit your workload
Dell Networking solutions embrace a wide range of
architectures and capabilities to suit any type of server and
workload deployment you require. We offer traditional
hierarchical architectures for legacy workload deployments,
hypervisor-optimized fabric solutions for virtual machine
deployments and robust end-to-end 10G capabilities from
data center to campus for optimizing desktop and end-user
computing performance.
Take control of big data
The Dell Apache™ Hadoop® solution enables an application to
work with thousands of independent compute resources and
petabytes of data, performing complex computations
or lookups in a fraction of a second. Our Hadoop solution
comprises Dell Networking S4810 switches, Dell PowerEdge
servers, Dell Crowbar software and the OpenStack cloud
operating system, as well as optimized hardware, software
and services streamline deployment.
Learn More at Dell.com/Networking
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Choose affordable and efficient
desktop virtualization
Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DVS) are based on the
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 R2 Hyper-V™ platform,
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
and Dell servers and storage. Dell DVS offers an efficient,
high-performance foundation for enterprise desktop
virtualization to help increase security and streamline client
deployment and management while helping reduce your costs.
Simplify server virtualization
Dell Active Systems are pre-engineered, pre-built virtualization
Dell Compellent™
solutions that include server, storage, networking and
family
management tools. They operate together seamlessly and are
Efficient
designed to scale. Growing the infrastructure becomes as simple
performance
and capacity as adding more capacity to an existing Dell Active System rack
or integrating additional racks as needed.
Networking services
Whether you are seeking product support or complete IT
outsourcing, Dell can deliver services based on your needs.
Consulting services
Achieve better business outcomes with professional guidance
pertaining to your network. Improve network performance, add
functionality and leverage existing infrastructure to maximize
your investment.
Deployment services
Let us install and correctly optimize your network with a
comprehensive set of remote and on-site deployment services.
Managed services
Free yourself to focus on your business and allow Dell to fully
manage and monitor your multivendor network with triage,
resolution, and Tier 2 and 3 engineering support.
Support services
Gain access to service professionals 24 hours a day who can
help you configure, troubleshoot and diagnose your network.
Dell ProSupport™ experts also help resolve complex issues
related to third-party connectivity to Cisco, Brocade, Juniper,
HP and Aruba.
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