Equipment Supporting 2.5gbps and 5gbps

Sat Jan 30 08:03:00 UTC 2016

Dear Mr. Carpenter,

Juniper is expensive. If you buy a new 48 x 10GbE/SFP+ fiberswitch from an H3C based vendor like Huawei, you get the whole unit for $10,000. All you need in addition to that are the lasers and these will set you back a hundred bucks per port in case you select 1310nm SFP+ modules (SMF 80km duplex), rendering a total price of less than $300 per interface,

Best regards,

Jonas Bjork
ISP Senior Network Engineer

> On 28 Jan 2016, at 19:35, Mike <mike-nanog at tiedyenetworks.com> wrote:
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>> On 01/28/2016 10:29 AM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
>> I'd love to know what model Juniper you are getting for $102 per 10GbE port and where you are getting it. The lowest-end 10GbE switch is the EX4600, which lists at more like $850 per port. You can get higher-end ones with much larger port counts and get the cost/port down to about half that, but I can't imagine what you could be talking about for $102/port.
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>> I would kill for a 24-port 10GbE Juniper switch for ~$2,500. You can't even get a 24-port 1GbE for that.
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> +1, me too!
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