out of band management gear

Fri Feb 21 21:17:15 UTC 2014

On 2/21/2014 2:27 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
> OpenGear's newer stuff is Gigabit (SFP even).
>
> I've not seen any real switch made in the last decade that has a problem with 100Mb/s connections. Ancient cisco, maybe had issues.
>
There's several devices that are 1/10Gb and do NOT support 10/100Mb.  
Cisco Nexus 5000/5500s, Brocade VDX series stuff, etc.

In our new data center, the only 10/100 ports are a couple blades in our 
Nexus 7018s put there just to provide these lower-speed connections to 
devices that needed them.  Expensive options in a fully loaded chassis 
just for a couple lower-end devices that could easily justify a couple 
dollars more to get a Gig PHY instead of the older 100Mb PHY chip.

Jeremy "TheBrez" Bresley