[AusNOG] 10GbE Switching

[McDonald Richards]

I think Extreme are still trying to shake the "purple packet eater" moniker
:)

Macca


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[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Skeeve Stevens
Sent: Friday, 16 July 2010 3:34 PM
To: Julien Goodwin
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] 10GbE Switching

That is sad to hear about your Extreme experiences.  We have a few under
management, the interface is 'ok' - nothing special certainly.

But to update their pricing:

X650-24t (10GE Copper) will set you back around $32k
X650-24x (SFP+) is around $20k plus optics
AC PSUs are sold separately for around - $2k a pop

...Skeeve

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julien Goodwin [mailto:ausnog at studio442.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 16 July 2010 3:11 PM
> To: Skeeve Stevens
> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] 10GbE Switching
> 
> On 16/07/10 14:37, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> > -          Juniper EX3200 -  24 port 1GbE with 1 module slot. About
> > $3.5k.  10GbE network module approx $2k
> If they're nearby the EX4200's with the stack cables are better, in
> fact
> even running the stack over the 10gb ports (eg 2x 10Gbase-SR which
> we've
> got in production) is better then non-stacked latency-wise.
> 
> And yes I'm another one in the I <3 JunOS club as well.
> 
> > -          Extreme Summit X650.  No idea on pricing.
> Just to chip in my standard warning on Extreme kit recently[1], is even
> ignoring their near-useless hardware support in Australia (we had to
> settle for a 48-hour parts contract) they seem unable to actually
> support their OS. We couldn't manage to make the SSH daemon actually
> respect the IP ACL even with their support.
> 
> They're the only vendor that we've dropped due to sheer inability to
> meet support contracts.
> 
> Julien
> 
> 1: Timescale being end of 2008 start of 2009, they're still in
> production, but are certainly the worst of our managed switches to work
> on.
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