Specifications
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The PowerConnect 6200 series is Dell’s most advanced switching product line, offering
advanced switching capabilities including high-density, high-performance stacking and
10 Gigabit Ethernet capabilities scalable from the small business to the Enterprise Edge.
The PowerConnect 6200 series offers versions with 24 and 48 ports of 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit
Ethernet. The PowerConnect 6248 and 6224 series switches support up to four 10 Gigabit Ethernet
uplinks for connectivity directly to 10GE routers, servers, enterprise backbones and data centers.
Delivering signicant rack density, the PowerConnect 6200 gives users the exibility to maximize
server and workstation connectivity in a 1U form factor. Up to 576 servers and/or clients can be
connected in a stack of 6200 series switches to help provide the maximum density, exibility and
manageability.
The PowerConnect 6200 series supports high-performance resilient stacking for up to twelve systems,
which allows increased throughput to be added as needed without affecting network performance.
With each switch supporting up to 184 Gbps in switch capacity, the customer can have almost 2
Terabits of capacity in a single stack!
The PowerConnect 6200 series switches support up to four 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks for connectivity
directly to 10GE routers, servers, enterprise backbones and data centers.
The PowerConnect 6224F offers up to 24 Fiber GbE ports for the small to medium enterprise network
backbone or long-haul connectivity.
The PowerConnect 6200 series supports advanced Layer 3 routing and multicast protocols to help
reduce congestion and manage trafc in the network. The PowerConnect 6200 series supports
frequently used LAN routing protocols such as RIPv1/v2, OSPFv2/v3, VRRP, IGMP, DVMRP, PIM
and LLDP-MED.
The PowerConnect 6200 offers exibility in Quality of Service (QoS) by giving network administrators
the ability to prioritize time-critical network trafc based on a variety of user-dened criteria.
Administrators can expedite trafc based on L2 or L3 information to provide greater control over
trafc ow within the network.