D-Link (News - Alert) has introduced a family of 10-Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2 and Layer 3 managed aggregation switches, coined the DXS-3600 series. The series standard software image supports an extensive range of L2+ features including VLAN, multicasting, quality of service (QoS), security, data center, and static routing functions, making them perfect for small and medium-sized businesses and enterprises, school campuses and data center environments.
The series includes DXS-3600-16S and DXS-3600-32S, which are compact, high-performance switches with very low latency, making them ideal, cost-effective solutions for enterprise and education network environments, as well as top-of-rack (ToR) deployment in data centers.
Steven Olen, director of Product Marketing at D-Link Systems said in a statement, "Today's businesses and educational organizations face ever-increasing needs to expand bandwidth, performance, switching capacity, overall reliability, and energy savings. The DXS-3600 series is designed to meet all of these market needs and deliver a cost effective solution for a range of network environments including small to medium sized businesses, enterprise environments, data centers, school campuses, healthcare facilities, and government organizations."
Both the newly introduced switches support eight and 24 fixed 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ ports respectively, with the option to add more ports using an expansion module if so desired. The expansion modules provide extra 1000BASE-T ports, 10-Gigabit SFP+ ports, 40-Gigabit QSFP+ uplinks, or low cost 10GBASE-T interfaces for a wide range of applications.
In addition, the switches also support data center bridging protocols to help prevent data loss during network congestion, featuring selectable store-and-forward or cut-through switching modes to reduce network latency. The switches utilize two hot-swappable power modules for 1+1 power redundancy and load sharing and three hot-swappable smart fans for redundancy as well. The smart fans monitor and detect temperature changes and react accordingly by utilizing different fan speeds for different temperatures.
Edited by Jamie Epstein