FS S5850 Series L3 Enterprise Switches Overview

During the digital transformation stage of your enterprise, you will find that the existing network infrastructure cannot adapt to the new business needs, and you must consider upgrading the network performance. For the construction requirements of the three-layer network, how to choose the appropriate enterprise switches and achieve optimal network performance or management? The FS S5850 series combines excellent features here.

Get Your Smart Lossless Network with S5850 Series Switches

Classified as FS Enterprise Switches, the FS S5850 series switches features 16/24/48 port densities to select, as well as advanced Layer 3 switching/routing protocol capabilities, enhanced application hosting, and more configuration automation performance to provide a smarter campus or data center network.

Low-latency and lossless networks: S5850 series supports advanced functions such as PFC, ECN, MPLS and VXLAN-BGP-EVPN, ensuring robust and future-proof networking solutions.

High-reliability redundant design: Achieve stable, uninterrupted service with MLAG, hot-swappable components, and protocols such as LACP, VRRP, Smart Link, BFD, and ERPS.

High-security performance: The S5850 series enhances network protection by supporting a range of security protocols, including 802.1x, TACACS+, RADIUS, and real-time network monitoring, ensuring robust network security.

Comprehensive management functions: Users can manage the switch through the Console port, in-band/out-band network port, and USB port.Comprehensive management functions: Users can manage the switch through the Console port, in-band/out-band network port, and USB port.

S5850 Series Switches Features and Highlights

Versatile Connectivity

The FS S5850 Series switches provide flexible port configurations to cater to diverse networking needs:

16-Port Switch Models

: Offering a mix of 1G RJ45, 10G SFP+, and 25G SFP28 ports, with uplinks supporting 40G for efficient edge or small aggregation deployments (The S5850-16T16BS2Q model provides these supported features.)

24-Port Switch Models

: Feature 10G or 25G ports combined with high-speed uplinks (40G/100G), ensuring robust performance for edge or mid-level aggregation networks.

48-Port Switch Models

: These high-density options feature 10G or 25G ports and versatile uplinks (40G/100G), designed to conserve valuable rack space and simplify the migration to 40/100Gbps in the network core, making them ideal for large-scale edge, aggregation, or core network applications.

With support for advanced port speeds and uplink scalability, the S5850 Series enables seamless integration into enterprise and data center networks.

High-Reliability Redundant Design

The S5850 series switches boast a high-reliability redundant design, featuring hot-swappable power supplies and redundant fans to ensure stable operation under high loads. This provides continuous reliability for enterprise networks, with support for MLAG. All ports can connect using LAG or LACP protocols without relying on proprietary protocols, ensuring network efficiency and stability. The switches are compatible with various protocols, including LACP, VRRP, Smart Link, BFD, and ERPS. Additionally, Spanning Tree Protocols (STP, RSTP, MSTP) effectively prevent network loops, while protection mechanisms like BPDU Guard and Root Guard bolster network security.

Comprehensive Protocol Support

The S5850 series switches provide robust protocol support, including NVGRE, GENEVE, and DCBX, making them particularly well-suited for virtualization environments and cloud computing applications. Additionally, they are compatible with GRE tunnels, meeting the requirements of complex network architectures. Some switches, such as the S5850-48T4Q, S5850-48T4Q-PE, and S5850-24B4C, support more advanced PFC and ECN protocols, delivering powerful protocol support for data centers.

The S5850 series switches also deliver comprehensive Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities, including 13 hardware queues per port, support for WRED, Tail Drop, Strict Priority and WDRR scheduling (including mixed scheduling), and traffic classification based on COS/DSCP.

Additionally, by purchasing the LIC-FIX-MA license, users can unlock more advanced features, including MPLS, LDP, MPLS-L2VPN, MPLS-L3VPN, VXLAN-BGP-EVPN, and IPFIX, further enhancing the network's scalability and flexibility to meet growing network demands.

Easy Network Maintenance

The S5850 series switches offer multiple management options for easy administration. They support CLI-based command line management for local control via the console port. Remote management can be conducted through a web UI, Telnet, and SSH, using connections via a 10/100/1000Mbps management or service port.

The switches also support SNMP v1, v2, and v3, allowing integration with monitoring tools like Zabbix. Additionally, they support the RPC-API for SDN, facilitating integration with SDN controllers to enhance network automation management capabilities.

Enhanced Network Security

Multiple security features are also supported by the FS S5850 series enterprise switches to limit access to the network and decrease outside threats, including:

Centralized 802.1x authentication feature to the network access, including flexible authentication, 802.1X monitor mode, and RADIUS change of authorization.

Support subscriber-class/switch-class/network-class security control.

TACACS+ and RADIUS authentication to facilitate centralized control of the switch and restrict unauthorized users from altering the configuration.

Access Control Lists (ACLs) for IPv6 and IPv4 security can filter IPv4/IPv6/Non-IP packet respectively. The ACLs can apply to physical ports/VLAN/port group/VLAN group.

The members of port group or VLAN group share a set of ACLs and save TCAM resources.

ARP inspection and IP source guard features prevent networks from malicious ARP attacks.

Choose the Right FS S5850 Series Switch for Your Network

The FS S5850 series edge and aggregation models are a range of compact 1RU 1/10G wire speed, low latency and scalable switches. They also further support 25G/40G/100G uplinks for flexible linkage to other switches or devices over different media. The details of the S5850 enterprise switches are listed as following:

Model	S5850-16T16BS2Q	S5850-24S2Q	S5850-24XMG	S5850-48T4Q	S5850-48S2Q4C
Ports	16x 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ45 | 8x 10G SFP+ | 8x 25G SFP28 | 2x 40G QSFP+	24x 1G/10G SFP+ | 2x 40G QSFP+	24x 10/100/1000M/2.5G/5G/10GBASE-T | 2x 100G QSFP28	48x 100/1000M/5G/10GBASE-T | 4x 40G QSFP+	48x 1G/10G SFP+ | 2x 40G QSFP+, 4x 100G QSFP28
Switching Capacity	752 Gbps	640 Gbps	880 Gbps	1.28 Tbps	1.92 Tbps
Forwarding Rate	540 Mpps	480 Mpps	654 Mpps	952.3 Mpps	1071.4 Mpps
Latency	0.66μs	0.66μs	0.66μs	0.67μs	0.6μs
Packet Buffer	9MB	9MB	9MB	9MB	9MB
Flash Memory	8GB (eMMC)	8GB (eMMC)	8GB EMMC(OS) 4MB SPI Flash(Boot)	2GB	2GB
MAC Address	98K	96K	98K	65K	64K
Jumbo Frame	9,600	9,600	9,600	9,600	9,600
Fans Number	3 (2+1 Redundancy) Built-in	3 (2+1 Redundancy) Built-in	4 (2+2 Redundancy) Hot-swappable	4 (2+2 Redundancy) Hot-swappable	4 (3+1 Redundancy) Hot-swappable
Hot-swappable Power Supplier	2 (1+1 Redundancy) Hot-swappable, AC	2 (1+1 Redundancy) Hot-swappable	2 (1+1 Redundancy) Hot-swappable	2 (1+1 Redundancy) Hot-swappable	2 (1+1 Redundancy) Hot-swappable
Airflow	Front-to-Back
Stacking or MLAG	MLAG
VLAN, QoS, IGMP Snooping, Link Aggregation	Support
Static Routing, RIP, OSPF, IPv6 support	Support
Warranty	5 Years

Explore the FS S5850 Series today to build a secure, efficient, and scalable network that meets the demands of digital transformation.

Testimonial

Check out the reviews shared by our clients of FS S5850 series enterprise switches:

S5850-48T4Q

"FS Switches are better that even cisco,....we have supplied them somewhere they even use it in core productions network and its almost 3 years without any problem, with bought Datacenter switch 3 years ago and until today there is no complaint or requirement for support. For me, I am very very confident with FS Products, especially for those Datacenter switches. I can recommend 1000% to you."

— From Kenya

S5850-24S2C

"The switch is also very power efficient and reasonably quiet compared with other switches I’ve used. So far I am impressed and think the switch offers much better value than the Cisco equivalents. I look forward to working more with it and getting the project to the end-user testing stage."

— From New Zealand