Equipment Supporting 2.5gbps and 5gbps

Fri Jan 29 12:24:10 UTC 2016

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:07:16PM -0600, Yang Yu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Brandon Butterworth
> <brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > With 10G it's been the opposite, nobody was using copper so SFP+ is
> > cheap. Only recently has copper 10G started to become common, a bit too
> > late to be worth bothering with now and as there are no copper SFP+
> > Having new servers switch to copper instead of sfp is a nuisance
> 
>  SFP+ Copper Twinax is another option for 10G to save on the transceivers

	Not really.

	You can get 10G optics for sub-$10 and patch cords for cheap too,
so why spend >$50 on DAC cables when you can go fiber and save
space and money?

	Walking into a colo and seeing orange or aqua cables always
makes me sad as people overpaid and created themselves a future problem.

	- Jared

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