DELL N3000 User Manual

Hardware Overview

The N3000 front panel also displays status LEDs for over-temperature alarm, 

internal power supply 1 and switch status on the top row. The bottom row of 

status LEDs displays stack master, internal power supply 2 and fan alarm. 

The N3024/N3024P front panel provides 24 Gigabit Ethernet 

(10/100/1000BASE-T) RJ-45 ports that support auto-negotiation for speed, 

flow control, and duplex. The N3024P models support two SFP+ 10G ports. 

Dell-qualified SFP+ transceivers are sold separately. 
The N3024F front panel provides 24 Gigabit Ethernet 100BASE-

FX/1000BASE-X SFP ports plus 2 1000BASE-T combo ports. Dell-qualified 

SFP transceivers are sold separately.
The N3048/N3048P front panel provides 48 Gigabit Ethernet (10BASE-T, 

100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) RJ-45 ports that support auto-negotiation for 

speed, flow control, and duplex. The N3048/N3048P support two SFP+ 10G 

ports. Dell-qualified SFP+ transceivers are sold separately.
The front-panel switch ports have the following characteristics:

• The switch automatically detects the difference between crossed and 

straight-through cables on RJ-45 ports and automatically chooses the MDI 

or MDIX configuration to match the other end. 

• SFP+ ports support Dell-qualified transceivers. The default behavior is to 

log a message and generate an SNMP trap on insertion or removal of an 

optic that is not qualified by Dell. The message and trap can be suppressed 

by using the 

service unsupported-transceiver command.

• RJ-45 ports support full-duplex mode 10/100/1000 Mbps speeds on 

standard Category 5 UTP cable.

• SFP+ ports support SFP+ transceivers and SFP+ copper twin-ax 

technology operating at 10G/1G plus SFP transceivers operating at 1G. 

• The N3024P/N3048P front panel ports support PoE (15.4W) and PoE+ 

(34.2W).