Equipment Supporting 2.5gbps and 5gbps

Thu Jan 28 18:39:23 UTC 2016

On 1/28/16 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.
> 
> I would kill for a 24-port 10GbE Juniper switch for ~$2,500. You
> can't even get a 24-port 1GbE for that.

a single asic trident+ switch with 56 10Gb/s ports is in the
neighborhood of 5k, less in volume... trident 2 is more.

lopping ports off doesn't make the asic any cheaper.

> thanks, -Randy
> 
> 
> 
> ----- On Jan 28, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Josh Reynolds
> josh at kyneticwifi.com wrote:
> 
>> You're buying your switches and optics in the wrong places.
>> 
>> An SFP+ 10K w/ DOM is running me a little under $34. An SFP+ port
>> runs me slightly over $102. (Juniper)
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Baldur Norddahl 
>> <baldur.norddahl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The standard 24 or 48 port SFP+ switch is 10 times the price of
>>> the equivalent switch with 24 or 48 port SFP. The same is true
>>> for the optics.
>>> 
>>> 2.5 and 4 Gbit/s SFP modules are available and cheap. It is just
>>> that ethernet ports will not take advantage of the extra speed.
>>> So it is only useful on fibrechannel ports.
>>> 
>>> It would be an improvement if we can get 2.5 or 4 Gbit/s ethernet
>>> on SFP instead of paying for an all SFP+ switch.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Baldur
> 

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