FS N5570-48S6C Switch: Enhancing Data Center Performance and Efficiency

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, data centers face ever-increasing demands for higher performance, scalability, and reliability. The backbone of any efficient data center lies in its network infrastructure, where switches play a crucial role—introducing the FS N5570-48S6C, a high-performance switch designed to meet the complex demands of modern data center networks with exceptional stability, flexibility, and energy efficiency.

Challenges in Data Center Networks

As modern data centers continue to expand, the demand for high-performance data center environments is growing. At the same time, the increasing integration of computing, networking, and storage presents greater challenges for network administrators in terms of flexibility in deployment, management, and monitoring.

High-Speed Connectivity

: To address data transmission bottlenecks in high-traffic environments, modern networking switches must provide high-speed port connections to enable rapid data exchange. This ensures fast data transfers to meet growing traffic demands while reducing performance degradation caused by network congestion.

Ultra-Low Latency

: In data center networks, minimizing latency, packet loss, jitter, and congestion is key to enhancing performance. This presents challenges for switch network management and traffic control technologies, requiring switches to improve network stability and efficiency while ensuring reliable and fast data transmission under heavy workloads.

Network Management:

As data centers expand in scale and the number of devices grows, interoperability across multi-vendor environments adds complexity to network management. More flexible network management solutions are required to enable rapid deployment, real-time network monitoring, quick fault identification and response, and to ensure the security of network devices and data transmission.

What Is the FS N5570-48S6C Switch?

The N5120-48S6C switch leverages Broadcom Trident 3 silicon and supports 10GbE and 100GbE interfaces in a 1U form factor. The 100GbE interfaces can be configured as 4x 25GbE via breakout cables or run as 40GbE for flexibility. With 1.08 Tbps of unidirectional throughput, the switch is perfectly suited for leaf deployments in small to medium-sized data centers, as well as for data center interconnects (DCI).

The key parameters are presented in detail in the table below：

Feature	Specification	Feature	Specification
Ports	48x 10G SFP+ | 6x 100G QSFP28	Operating System	PicOS®
Switch Chip	Broadcom BCM56771 Trident 3	Switching Capacity	1.08 Tbps
Power Supplies	2 (1+1 Redundancy) Hot-swappable, AC	Forwarding Rate	964.28 Mpps
Fans	5x Hot-swappable Fans, Front-Rear	Packet Buffer	32MB
Dimensions (HxWxD)	1.73"x17.42"x18.63" (43.95x442.5x473.3mm)	Jumbo Frame	9K Bytes
Weight	19.43 lbs (8.815 kg)	MAC Address	98K
Input Voltage	100-240VAC, 50-60Hz	IPv4/IPv6 Routes	168K/100K
Input Current	6-3A	Latency	<1µs
Max. Power Consumption	356W	SDRAM	8GB x 2 SO-DIMM
Operating Temperature	0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F)	Flash Memory	64GB

Key Benefits of N5570-48S6C in Data Center

1. High-speed and Flexible Interfaces

The N5120-48S6C offers a combination of 48 x 10Gb SFP+ and 6 x 100Gb QSFP28 interfaces, providing a low-latency, high-bandwidth network for leaf-spine architectures. This flexibility makes it ideal for scaling and future-proofing data center infrastructure, while its low-power design reduces heat dissipation and energy consumption.

2. Stable PicOS® Operating System with Rich Protocols

PicOS® is a unified, modular operating system that reduces network complexity and streamlines operations from edge to core. It features a dual-partition rollback for quick recovery, robust L2/L3 capabilities, and various security authentication methods, enhancing network reliability, availability, and performance while enabling faster service deployment and efficient management.

3. AmpCon-DC: Simplified Management

The AmpCon-DC SDN controller brings automation to the forefront, offering Day 0 to Day 2+ capabilities such as provisioning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance. By streamlining these processes, reduces operational expenses (OPEX) and maximizes resource utilization, significantly improving network efficiency.

4. Hardware Redundancy for Network Stability

Designed with hot-swappable redundant power supplies and intelligent fan modules, the N5570-48S6C ensures uninterrupted operations even during maintenance. This hardware-level redundancy enhances the reliability of data centers.

Addressing Data Center Challenges with FS N5570-48S6C

To meet the challenges of greater computing power and server density in today's data center infrastructure, FS N5570-48S6C switches provide high-speed, low-latency, storage converged and I/O converged networking solutions to maximize the performance of physical servers, virtual servers and storage:

High-Speed Connectivity

Equipped with 100G high-speed uplink ports, the N5570-48S6C ensures rapid data transfers, reducing bottlenecks in high-traffic environments.

Supports RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access), enabling direct memory access between servers to accelerate data movement and minimize CPU overhead.

Ultra-Low Latency

N5570-48S6C implements Data Center Bridging (DCB) technologies such as PFC (Priority Flow Control) and ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) to minimize packet loss, jitter, and congestion, ensuring a stable and high-bandwidth network.

Supports EVPN-VXLAN, enabling large-scale cloud data center network virtualization. This improves network agility, optimizes cross-data center traffic scheduling, and enhances overall efficiency.

Data Center Management

The

AmpCon-DC SDN Controller

enables automated software management, allowing customers to quickly deploy products and achieve unified operations and maintenance. This greatly enhances efficiency while helping businesses reduce capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operational expenditures (OPEX).

With PicOS® supporting comprehensive L2/L3 functionalities, enterprises can build a flexible and scalable network architecture. The AmpCon-DC SDN Controller enhances network management with powerful control and flexibility, offering Telemetry for real-time performance optimization and topology auto-discovery to simplify network management and maintenance.

Conclusion

In an era where data centers form the backbone of digital transformation, the FS N5570-48S6C switch stands out as a reliable and efficient solution. With its high-speed throughput, advanced management capabilities, and enhanced security features, it addresses the most pressing challenges faced by modern data centers.

Elevate your data center infrastructure with the FS N5570-48S6C switch and experience unparalleled network performance, scalability, and efficiency. Learn more about how the FS PicOS® switch can transform your data center at FS.com today!