Dell Force10_C300 is a 13RU chassis featuring up to eight blade I/O slots coupled with a backplane driving up to 1.536 Tbps bandwidth.
Chassis includes backplane, switch and route processor module and fan subsystem.

• 13 RU chassis
• 1.536 Tbps fabric switching capacity
• 10 modular slots
  - 2slots for RPMs with integrated switching fabrics
  - 8 line card slots
• Fan tray with redundant fans
  - Side to side chassis airflow
• 8 loads sharing power supplies
  - 1200 WAC each
  - Front to back PSM airflow
  - Supports PoE
• 2 load sharing power DC supplies
  - 1400 WAC each
  - Front to back PEM airflow
  - No PoE support
• Hot insertion and removeal od all componentsRPMs,Line cards and PSM are shared common components for the C-series product line
  - C150 and C300 chassis fan trsys are different

•  Low cost 100/1000 Mbps server aggregation for small- to medium-sized data centers (100s to 1,000s of servers)
• Cost-effective LAN core switch for small- and medium-campuses (100s to 1,000s of PCs)
• Scalable GbE aggregation and 10GbE transport in a carrier's Middle Mile network to enable the deployment of triple play services
• High density GbE aggregation into a multiple Gbps or 10GbE backbone
• Cost-effective PoE-enabled 10/100/1000Base-T wiring closet aggregation of VoIP phones, wireless access points, video cameras or other IEEE 802.3af-compliant devices

KEY FEATURES:
The Dell Force10 C-Series is designed to provide inherent reliability, network control, and scalability for high performance Ethernet environments.

• Up to 384 line-rate 10/100/1000Base-T ports with full 15.4 W Class 3 PoE support in a 13-RU chassis
• Up to 64 line-rate 10GbE ports with pluggable XFP modules
• Suite of security, access control and wiring-closet edge features for enterprise networks
• VirtualView real-time network and application traffic monitoring for virtualized data centers
• PowerSmart intelligent power management features provide automatic sensing, provisioning and management of PoE power
• Full complement of standards-based Layer 2, IPv4 and IPv6 features for unicast and multicast applications
• 5-microsecond switching latency under full load for 64 byte frames
• Switch fabric capacity of up to 1.536 Tbps and up to 952 Mpps L2/L3 packet forwarding capacit
• High availability architecture
    - 1+1 Route Processor Module (RPM) design
    - Continuous runtime data plane monitoring and advanced in-service CLI diagnostic functions
    - Power supply redundancy with load sharing power bus enabling uninterrupted VoIP calls during a power supply failure