[AusNOG] 10Gb Switching - Cheap but good

[Craig Askings]

> On 30 May 2015, at 2:12 pm, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:
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> There are some new switches arriving that are mind-blowing.
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> I'd love to play with the Dell's Z9100-ON. Check out: http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-Networking-Z9100-spec-sheet.pdf <http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-Networking-Z9100-spec-sheet.pdf> 
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> and video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiGqRy5zgCM <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiGqRy5zgCM>
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> Multi-rate... 10Ge, 25Ge, 40Ge, 50Ge, 100Ge on the same ports using different optics - with flexible operating systems... Cumulus and Pica8 I hope.
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> Each port can be split into 4 x 10Ge/25Ge... 128 x 25Ge per 1RU chassis.  Talk about mother of all density.
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That would be using Broadcom’s new Tomahawk chipset. Expect to see a flood of similar specced switches in the coming months.

https://www.broadcom.com/products/Switching/Data-Center/BCM56960-Series <https://www.broadcom.com/products/Switching/Data-Center/BCM56960-Series>
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