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Chapter 3 Hardware Panels
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Hardware Panels
This chapter describes the front panel and rear panel of the Switch and shows you how to make the
hardware connections.
3.1 Front Panel Connections
The Switch supports 16 SFP+ slots and four 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. The Switch also comes with eight
dual personality interfaces of 10 Gigabit. A dual personality interface includes one Gigabit port and one
slot for a SFP+ module with one port active at a time.
Ethernet ports support Multi-Gigabit (100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, 5 Gbps, and 10 Gbps).
The figure below shows the front panel of the Switch.
Figure 12 Front Panel: XS3800-28
The following table describes the ports.
Table 5 Panel Connections
CONNECTOR DESCRIPTION
16 10 GbE SFP+ Slots Use SFP+ transceivers in these ports for high-bandwidth backbone connections. You can
also insert an SFP+ Direct Attach Copper (DAC) in the SFP+ slot.
4 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps,
2.5 Gbps, 5 Gbps,
and 10 Gbps RJ-45
Ethernet Ports These are 10GBase-T auto-negotiating and auto-crossover Ethernet ports.
Connect these ports to a computer, a hub, a router, or an Ethernet switch.
8 10 GbE Combo
Ports (Dual
Personality
Interfaces) Each interface has one 10GBase-T copper RJ-45 port and one SFP slot, with one port active
at a time.
• 8 10GBase-T Ports:
Connect these ports to a computer, an Ethernet switch or router.
• 8 SFP+ Slots:
Use Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) transceivers in these ports for fiber optic
connections to an Ethernet switch or router.
RJ-45 out-of-band
Management Port Connect to a computer using an RJ-45 Ethernet cable for local configuration of the Switch.
Console Port Only connect this port to your computer (using an RS-232 cable) if you want to configure the
Switch using the command line interface (CLI) through the console port.