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Dell PowerSwitches are used throughout the build for different types of traffic. The PowerSwitch N3248TE-ON is used for the Out of Band network to connect to iDRACs and management ports. The PowerSwitch S5248F-ON is used for in-band North-South server traffic to handle front-end client connections to Ubuntu and Kubernetes front-end service IPs. The PowerScale NAS has 100Gb Z9664F-ON switches to support NAS front-end traffic and different Z9664F-ON for backend traffic.