10GBase-t switch

Thu Mar 11 06:04:07 UTC 2010

> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:26:16 +0900
> From: Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>
> 
> > arista 7120t-4s...
> 
> hot box.  but you are giving away the secret sauce!

Hot box for the datacenter, but small buffers make it unsuited for
long distances. In the right place, this box can't be beaten in the
price/performance realm.

Some of their salescritters can be annoying, too, but YMMV. We may have
just hit a bad one.
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