
The S5248F-ON switch also supports Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) for zero-touch installation of network operating systems. This switch features 48 x 25 GbE SFP28 ports, 4 x 100 GbE QSFP28 ports, and 2 x 100 GbE QFSP28-DD ports. The S5248F-ON switch provide s optimum flexibility and cost-effectiveness for demanding compute and storage traffic environments. The Dell EMC Networking S5248F-ON switch is a multi-rate ToR data center switch that delivers the architectural agility and flexibility that is needed to deploy software-defined infrastructure so that you can easily deploy cost-effective, high-capacity network fabrics. For an economy of scale or to provide a longer switch lifetime, you might decide to use 25 GbE switches or 100 GbE switches to provision the network infrastructure.

Dell EMC engineers chose base-line switches for the Ready Architecture design to handle anticipated maximum data flow rates over a 25 GbE connection.

Data plane networking switches carry all OpenShift cluster ingress/egress traffic, all internal traffic, and all storage traffic.
