Product Description - Dell Networking S3100 Series Getting Started Manual

S3100 Series Hardware Overview
This section contains basic information about the S3100 series, including descriptions of features, I/O and
PSU sides, power supplies, fans, and light emitting diode (LED) status.

Product Description

The S3100 series is a low-cost wireless closet switch/router product for copper connections to 1G
endpoints with Power over Ethernet plus (PoE+) capability on 1G access ports. The series includes
capabilities for 1/10GE switching with 1G copper links for campus network endpoints and 10G ports for
uplinks to core/aggregation switches. Each of the platforms also includes a 20G expansion slot that
supports an optional small form-factor pluggable plus (SFP+) or 10GBase-T module. The series has four
platforms. For the two PoE platforms, you can stack up to six switches to operate as a single unit.
The S3124 platform includes the following features:
• Twenty-four Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 ports that support auto-negotiation for
speed, flow control, and duplex.
• Two combo SFP ports.
• Two SFP+ 10G ports.
The S3124F platform includes the following features:
• Twenty-four Gigabit Ethernet 100BASEFX/1000BASE-X SFP ports.
• Two 1G copper combo ports.
• Two SFP+ 10G ports.
The S3124P platform includes the following features:
• Twenty-four Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000BASE-T RJ-45 ports for copper that support auto-
negotiation for speed, flow control, and duplex.
• Two combo SFP ports.
• Two SFP+ 10G ports.
• Supports PoE+.
• Two fixed mini Serial Attached SCSI (mini-SAS) stacking ports HG[21] to connect up to six switches.
For the S3124, S3124F, and S3124P platforms, the port numbering is as follows:
• Regular ports (I/O side) are numbered one to twenty-four.
• Combo ports (I/O side) are numbered twenty-three and twenty-four.
• SFP+ ports (I/O side) are numbered twenty-five and twenty-six.
• Module ports (PSU side) are numbered twenty-seven and twenty-eight.
• Stacking ports (PSU side) are numbered twenty-nine and thirty.
The S3148P platform includes the following features:
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