Dell POWEREDGE M1000E - Manual (Page 9)

Quadport Capable Hardware for the M1000e Modular Chassis
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Dual port and Quadport IOM’s
The IO Modules are split into 2 types, Pass-through modules and Switches. We will focus on the PowerConnect
M6348 Ethernet switch IOM.
The M6348 is a 48 port switch with 32 internal ports meaning there are double the incoming or internal Ethernet
ports compared to a dual port switch where standard dual port IOM’s have 16 internal ports. These 32 ports are
mapped in a one to one ratio with the outgoing ports from a Quadport Mezzanine card. All switches have external
outgoing or uplink ports. It is suggested that a quadport mezzanine will always be matched with a quad port switch
like the M6348.
FIGURE 6
PowerConnect M6348 Ethernet Switch showing the uplink ports
TechNote: Internal ports are the ports that face internally into the chassis and the
external ports are the ports used to uplink to the core fabric