The dell 5500 series switches are designed to offer secure fixed port gigabit ethernet switching solutions to deliver full wire speed switching performance with 24 or 48 built in copper gigabit ethernet ports in a 1u form factor the 5500 series has a total switching capacity of up to 176 gbps to support demanding network environments the switches also offer simple management and scalability via a 40gbps high availability stacking architecture that allows you to manage up to eight switches fr