Specifications:

Physical

• 2 rear stacking ports (21Gbps) supporting up to 84Gbps (full-duplex)
• 2 integrated front 10GbE SFP+ dedicated ports
• USB (Type A) port for configuration via USB flash drive
• Auto-negotiation for speed and flow control
• Auto MDI/MDIX, port mirroring
• Flow-based port mirroring
• Broadcast storm control
• Energy-Efficient Ethernet per port settings
• Redundant variable speed fans
• Air flow: I/O to power supply
• Integrated power supply: 100W AC (N2024, N2048), 1,000W AC (N2024P, N2048P)
• RJ45 console port with RS232 signaling (RJ-45 to female DB-9 connector cable included)
• Dual firmware images on-board

Chassis

• Size (1RU): 1.7 in x 17.3 in x 10.1 in (43.5 mm x 440.0 mm x 257.0 mm) (H x W x D) (N2024 and N2048)
  1.7 in x 17.3 in x 15.2 in (43.5 mm x 440.0 mm x 387.0 mm) (H x W x D) (N2024P and N2048P)
• Approximate weight: 8.1351lbs/3.69kg (N2024), 14.0435lbs/6.37kg (N2024P), 8.9287lbs/4.05kg (N2048), 14.9914lbs/6.8kg (N2048P)
• Rack mounting kit with 2 mounting brackets, bolts and cage nuts

Environmental

• Power supply efficiency: 80% or better in all operating modes
• Max. thermal output (BTU/hr): 117.44 (N2024), 3,113.33 (N2024P), 167.7 (N2048), 6069.80 (N2048P)
• Power consumption max (watts): 42.9 (N2024), 913 (N2024P), 53.9 (N2048), 1738 (N2048P)
• Operating temperature: 32° to 113°F (0° to 45°C)
• Operating humidity: 95%
• Storage temperature: –40° to 149°F (–40° to 65°C)
• Storage relative humidity: 85%

Performance

• MAC addresses: 8K (16K theoretical*)
• Static routes: 256 (IPv4)/128 (IPv6)
• Dynamic routes: 256 (IPv4)
• Switch fabric capacity: 172Gbps (N2024 and N2024P) (full duplex) 220Gbps (N2048 and N2048P)
• Forwarding rate: 128Mpps (N2024 and N2024P) 164Mpps (N2048 and N2048P)
• Link aggregation: 128 LAG groups, 144 dynamic ports per stack, 8 member ports per LAG
• Priority queues per port: 8
• Line-rate Layer 2 switching: All (non-blocking)
• Line-rate Layer 3 routing: All (non-blocking)
• Flash memory: 256MB
• Packet buffer memory: 4MB
• CPU memory: 1GB
• RIP routing interfaces: 256
• VLAN routing interfaces: 256
• VLANs supported: 4,094
• Protocol-based VLANs: Supported
• ARP entries: 1,024
• NDP entries: 400
• Access control lists (ACL): Supported
• MAC and IP-based ACLs: Supported
• Time-controlled ACLs: Supported
• Max number of ACLs: 100
• Max ACL rules system-wide: 2,048
• Max rules per ACL: 1,023
• Max ACL rules per interface (IPv4): 1,024 (ingress), 512 (egress)
• Max ACL rules per interface (IPv6): 512 (ingress), 256 (egress)
• Max VLAN interfaces with ACLs applied: 24

IEEE compliance

• 802.1AB LLDP
• Dell Voice VLAN
• Dell ISDP (inter-operates with devices running CDP)
• 802.1D Bridging, Spanning Tree
• 802.1p Ethernet Priority (User Provisioning and Mapping)
• Dell Adjustable WRR and Strict Queue Scheduling
• 802.1Q VLAN Tagging, Double VLAN Tagging, GVRP
• 802.1S Multiple Spanning Tree (MSTP)
• 802.1v Protocol-based VLANs
• 802.1W Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP)
• Dell RSTP-Per VLAN (compatible with Cisco's RPVST+)
• Dell Spanning tree optional features: STP root guard, BPDU guard, BPDU filtering
• 802.1X Network Access Control, Auto VLAN
• 802.2 Logical Link Control
• 802.3 10BASE-T
• 802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet (1000BASE-T)
• 802.3ac Frame Extensions for VLAN Tagging
• 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP
• 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBASE-X)
• 802.3AX LAG Load Balancing
• Dell Multi-Chassis LAG (MLAG)
• Dell Policy Based Forwarding
• 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE)
• 802.3u Fast Ethernet (100BASE-TX) on Management Ports
• 802.3x Flow Control
• 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet (1000BASE-X)
• ANSI LLDP-MED (TIA-1057)
• MTU 9,216 bytes

RFC compliance and additional features

• General Internet protocols are supported.
• General IPv4 protocols are supported.
• General IPv6 protocols are supported.

Layer 3 functionality

• 1058 RIPv1
• 2082 RIP-2 MD5 Auth
• 1724 RIPv2 MIB Extension 2
• 453 RIPv2

Multicast

• 2365 Admin scoped IP Mcast 4541
• IGMP v1/v2/v3 Snooping and Querier
• 2932 IPv4 MIB
• IEEE 802.1ag draft 8.1 – Connectivity Fault Management

Quality of service

• 2474 DiffServ Field
• 2697 srTCM
• 2475 DiffServ Architecture
• 4115 trTCM
• 2597 Assured Fwd PHB
• Dell L4 Trusted Mode (TCP/UDP)
• Dell Port Based QoS Services Mode
• Dell Flow Based QoS Services Mode (IPv4/IPv6)

Network management and security

• 1155 SMIv1
• 1157 SNMPv1
• 1212 Concise MIB Definitions
• 1213 MIB-II
• 1215 SNMP Traps
• 1286 Bridge MIB
• 1442 SMIv2
• 1451 Manager-to-Manager MIB
• 1492 TACACS+
• 1493 Managed Objects for Bridges MIB
• 1573 Evolution of Interfaces
• 1612 DNS Resolver MIB Extensions
• 1643 Ethernet-like MIB
• 1757 RMON MIB
• 1867 HTML/2.0 Forms with File Upload Extensions
• 1901 Community-based SNMPv2
• 1907 SNMPv2 MIB
• 1908 Coexistence Between SNMPv1/v2
• 2011 IP MIB
• 2012 TCP MIB
• 2013 UDP MIB
• 2068 HTTP/1.1
• 2096 IP Forwarding Table MIB
• 2233 Interfaces Group using SMIv2
• 2246 TLS v1
• 2271 SNMP Framework MIB
• 2295 Transport Content Negotiation
• 2296 Remote Variant Selection
• 2346 AES Ciphersuites for TLS
• 2576 Coexistence Between SNMPv1/v2/v3
• 2578 SMIv2
• 2579 Textual Conventions for SMIv2
• 2580 Conformance Statements for SMIv2
• 2613 RMON MIB
• 2618 RADIUS Authentication MIB
• 2620 RADIUS Accounting MIB
• 2665 Ethernet-like Interfaces MIB
• 2666 Identification of Ethernet Chipsets
• 2674 Extended Bridge MIB
• 2737 ENTITY MIB
• 2818 HTTP over TLS
• 2819 RMON MIB (groups 1, 2, 3, 9)
• 2856 Text Conv. For High Capacity Data Types
• 2863 Interfaces MIB
• 2865 RADIUS
• 2866 RADIUS Accounting
• 2868 RADIUS Attributes for Tunnel Prot.
• 2869 RADIUS Extensions
• 3410 Internet Standard Mgmt. Framework
• 3411 SNMP Management Framework
• 3412 Message Processing and Dispatching
• 3413 SNMP Applications
• 3414 User-based security model
• 3415 View-based control model
• 3416 SNMPv2
• 3417 Transport Mappings
• 3418 SNMP MIB
• 3577 RMON MIB
• 3580 802.1X with RADIUS
• 3737 Registry of RMOM MIB
• 4086 Randomness Requirements
• 4113 UDP MIB
• 4251 SSHv2 Protocol
• 4252 SSHv2 Authentication
• 4253 SSHv2 Transport
• 4254 SSHv2 Connection Protocol
• 4419 SSHv2 Transport Layer Protocol
• 4521 LDAP Extensions
• 4716 SECSH Public Key File Format
• 6101 SSL
• 6398 IP Router Alert
• Dell Enterprise MIB supporting routingfeatures draft-ietfhubmib-etherif- mibv3-00.txt (Obsoletes RFC 2665)
• Dell LAG MIB Support for 802.3ad Functionality
• Dell sflow version 1.3 draft 5
• Dell 802.1x Monitor Mode
• Dell Custom Login Banners
• Dell Dynamic ARP Inspection
• Dell IP Address Filtering
• Dell Tiered Authentication
• Dell RSPAN
• Demo OpenFlow 1.0