Ciena 5400 Family vs. Dell PowerSwitch S/Z Series

Ciena 5400 Family

Dell PowerSwitch S/Z Series

13 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Ciena 5400 Family	N/A	N/A	The Ciena 5400 Family is optimized for cost-effective, next-generation bandwidth management, enabling aggregation, grooming, and forwarding of multiple traffic types. Both the 5410 and 5430 systems employ Ciena’s intelligent control plane—shared with the 6500 Family—to automate labor-intensive operations including planning, provisioning, and topology and inventory management. The 5400 Family enables high availability networks for mission-critical services.	N/A
Dell PowerSwitch S/Z Series	Score5 out of 10	N/A	Based on the former Force10 switches, the Dell PowerSwitch S and Z Series Ethernet switches are a varied series of data center switches.	$3,002 one-time fee (approx)

Pricing

Ciena 5400 Family

Dell PowerSwitch S/Z Series

No answers on this topic

S3124: $3,002.00
one-time fee (approx)
S3124F: $3,354.00
one-time fee (approx)
S4128F-ON: $6,582.00
one-time fee (approx)
S5248F-ON: $8,918.00
one-time fee (approx)
S4148F-ON: $9,340.00
one-time fee (approx)
S4148U-ON: $11,516.00
one-time fee (approx)
S6010-ON: $11,532.00
one-time fee (approx)
S5296F-ON: $17,689.00
one-time fee (approx)

Pricing Offerings
Ciena 5400 Family	Dell PowerSwitch S/Z Series
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Best Alternatives
	Ciena 5400 Family	Dell PowerSwitch S/Z Series
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User Ratings
	Ciena 5400 Family	Dell PowerSwitch S/Z Series
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Ciena 5400 Family	Dell PowerSwitch S/Z Series
Likelihood to Recommend	Ciena No answers on this topic	Dell Technologies Quick system and flexible features allow easy networking within the entire company and the network distribution is excellent and easy via this Dell platform. The easy issues reporting using the production capability is good and also securing the entire organization network from various cyber threats and securing all the business information within the system and even the server performance management capability with the product is excellent. Incentivized Veronica Derrick Automation Engineer Read full review
Pros	Ciena No answers on this topic	Dell Technologies Improve connectivity Control network coverage Monitor flow of data Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Cons	Ciena No answers on this topic	Dell Technologies To non technical users, training is a must. Managing various created networks for some users. Detecting some network performance issues is also not easy to the beginners. Incentivized Veronica Derrick Automation Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Ciena No answers on this topic	Dell Technologies Due to Dell EMC powerswitch s series have reliable and flexible connevtivity and easily integrated with current system of organization and provided solution we are looking for within friendly budget. Data flow managing help us to customize data within time enable to get report timely and increased overall performance and production of the organization Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	Ciena No answers on this topic	Dell Technologies Great tool to secure the entire business network. Effective issues management within the company networking systems. Data easy management and transportation through the secure environment. Reporting is good and easy. Incentivized Veronica Derrick Automation Engineer Read full review
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