Dell EMC MX5108N Ethernet Switching Module

Specifications

Optics:

Transceiver, 100GbE, SR4 QSFP28

Transceiver, 100GbE, LR4 QSFP28

Transceiver, 100GbE, ESR4 QSFP28

Transceiver, 100GbE, PSM4 500m QSFP28

Transceiver, 100GbE, CWDM4 2Km QSFP28

Transceiver, 100GbE, SWDM4 100m QSFP28

Transceiver, 100GbE, BIDI optic QSFP28

Transceiver, 40GbE, SR4 optic QSFP

Transceiver, 40GbE, eSR4 optic QSFP

Transceiver, 40GbE, LR4 optic QSFP

Transceiver, 40GbE, BIDI optic QSFP

Transceiver, 40GbE, PSM4 10Km QSFP

Transceiver, 40GbE, LM4 Duplex QSFP

Transceiver, 40GbE, SM4 Duplex QSFP

Cables:

100GbE, QSFP28 to QSFP28, active optical, passive DAC

100GbE, QSFP28 to 4xSFP28 (4×10/25GbE), active optical, passive DAC

100GbE, MTP to MTP optical

100GbE, MTP to 4xLC optical breakout

40GbE, QSFP to QSFP , active optical & passive DAC

40GbE, QSFP to 4xSFP (4x10GbE), active optical & passive DAC

Software:

SmartFabric OS10

Select third-party operating system offerings (future)

 

Physical

Full featured 25/100GE switch in PowerEdge MX Fabric A/B I/O sled form factor

1 USB 2.0 type A storage port

1 micro USB type B port for console/ management port access

Indicators:

Power/Health LED

ID LED

Link/activity LEDs

Size: 1.18”h x 17.11”w x 10.94”d

Weight: 7.72lbs (3.5kg)

Max. power consumption: 65 Watts

Typ. power consumption: 63.3 Watts

Max. operating specifications:

Standard Operating Temperature 10°C to 35°C (50°F to 95°F)

Operating Relative Humidity 5% to 85%, noncondensing

Max. non-operating specifications:

Storage temperature: -40°C to 65°C (-40°F to 149°F)

Storage humidity: 5 to 95% (RH), noncondensing

Expanded Operating Temperature, Continuous Operation: 5°C to 40°C at 5% to 85% RH with 29°C dew point

Note: Outside the standard operating temperature, the system can operate continuously in temperatures as low as 5°C and as high as 40C. For temperature between 35°C to 40°C, de-rate

maximum allowable temperature by 1°C per 175m above 950m (1°F per 319 ft)

Redundancy

Redundant Power and Cooling provided by Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis

Performance

Switching I/O bandwidth: 960 Gbps

Forwarding capacity: 363 Mpps

Latency: Sub 800ns MAC addresses: 273K

IPv4 Unicast routes: 200K

IPv6 Unicast routes: 160K

ARP entries: 48K

Layer 2 VLANs: 30K P*V in Full Switch mode

Layer 3 VLANs: 10K P*V in Full Switch mode

MST: 32instances

PVST : 128 instances

LAG: 128 groups, 16 members per LAG group

ACL Entries-Layer 2 Egress: 1020

ACL Entries-Layer 2 Ingress: 6144

ACL Entries-IPv4 Egress: 1020

ACL Entries-IPv4 Ingress: 6144

ACL Entries-IPv6 Egress: 512

ACL Entries-IPv6 Ingress: 3072

Jumbo Frames: 9K

 

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

Layer2 Protocols

802.1D Compatible

802.1p L2 Prioritization

802.1Q VLAN Tagging

802.1s MSTP

802.1w RSTP

802.1t RPVST

7348 VxLAN

VLT (Virtual Link Trunking)

VRRP Active/Active

RSTP, MSTP & RPVST

Port Mirroring on VLT ports

DCB, iSCSI, FSB on VLT

RPM/ERPM over VLT

VLT Minloss upgrade

VxLAN with VLT

IGML/MLD snooping over VLT

PIM SM/SSM over VLT

 

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

1191 Path MTU Discovery

1305 NTPv4

1519 CIDR

1812 Routers, Static Routes

1858 IP Fragment Filtering

1918 Address Allocation for Private Internets

2131 DHCPv4 (server and relay)

2474 Diffserv Field in IPv4 and Ipv6 Headers

3021 31-bit Prefixes

3195 Reliable Delivery for Syslog

3246 Expedited Forwarding PHB Group

5798 VRRPv3

General IPv6 Protocols

1981 Path MTU for IPv6

2372 IPv6 Addressing

2460 IPv6 Protocol Specification

2461 Neighbor Discovery

2462 Stateless Address AutoConfig

2463 ICMPv6

2464 Ethernet Transmission

2675 IPv6 Jumbograms

2464 Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks

2711 IPv6 Router Alert

3493 Basic Socket Interface

3542 Advanced Socket, API

3587 Global Unicast Address Format

3848 Default Address Selection

4007 IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture

4213 Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers

4291 IPv6 Addressing

3633 DHCPv6 Relay

IPv6 Static Routes

OSPF (v2/v3)

1745 OSPF/BGP interaction

1765 OSPF Database overflow

2154 OSPF with Digital Signatures

2328 OSPFv2

2370 Opaque LSA

3101 OSPF NSSA

4552 OSPFv3 Authentication

Multicast

2236 IGMPv2 Snooping

3810 MLDv2 Snooping

Security

1492 TACACS (Authentication, Accounting, Authorization)

2865 RADIUS

3162 RADIUS and IPv6

3579 RADIUS support for EAP

3580 802.1X with RADIUS

3826 AES Cipher in SNMP

Control Plane, VTY ACLS

IP Access Control Lists

BGP

1997 Communities

2385 MD5

2439 Route Flap Damping

2545 BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing

2796 Route Reflection

2858 Multiprotocol Extensions

2918 Route Refresh

3065 Confederations

4271 BGP-4

4360 Extended Communities

4893 4-byte ASN

5396 4-byte ASN Representation

5492 Capabilities Advertisement

5549 BGP Unnumbered

BGP ADD PATH

BGP to OSPF route distribution

BGP EVPN

L2 & L3 Gateway with VxLAN Tunnels

BGP EVPN Asymmetric IRB

Symmetric IRB

Type 5 Routes

Linux Distribution

Debian Linux version 8

Linux Kernel 3.16

 

MIBS

BRIDGE-MIB

ENTITY-MIB

EtherLike-MIB

HOST-RESOURCES-V2-MIB

IEEE8021-PFC-MIB

IEEE8023-LAG-MIB

IF-MIB IP-FORWARD-MIB

IP-MIB

LLDP-EXT-DOT1-MIB

LLDP-EXT-DOT3-MIB

LLDP-MIB OSPF-MIB

OSPFV3-MIB

Q-BRIDGE-MIB (Get)

RFC1213-MIB

SFLOW-MIB

SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SNMP-MPD-MIB

SNMPv2-MIB

TCP-MIB

UDP-MIB

SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB

SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB

SNMP-TARGET-MIB

Network Management and Monitoring

SNMPv1/v2c/v3

IPv4/IPv6 Management support (Telnet, FTP, TACACS, RADIUS, SSH, NTP)

Port Mirroring

RPM/ERPM

3176 SFlow

Support Assist (Phone Home)

RestConf APIs, Auto-docs

XML Schema

CLI Commit (Scratchpad)

Uplink Failure Detection

Object Tracking

FarEnd Failure Detection

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) – BGPv4/6, OSPFv2/3, Static

Routes

Streaming Telemetry

System, Buffers, Data monitoring

gRPC Transport with gPB encoding

Automation

Control Plane Services APIs

Linux Utilities and Scripting Tools

CLI Automation (Multiline Alias)

Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack

Zero Touch Deployment (ZTD)

3rd party packages support on Docker

Container

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

Fibre Channel

l FIP Snooping

 

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 Fiber Communication Systems

FDA Regulation 21 CFR 1040.10 and 1040.11

Emissions & Immunity

Australia/New Zealand: AS/NZS CISPR 32:2015, Class A

Canada: ICES-3/NMB-3, Class A

Europe: EN 55024:2010 (CISPR 24:2010), Class A

Japan: VCCI V-3/2010.04 Class A

USA: FCC CFR 47 Part 15, Subpart B:2011, Class A Immunity

EN 300 386 V1.6.1 EMC for Network Equipment

EN 55024:2010

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

EN 50581:2012 All MX5108n components are EU

RoHS compliant