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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">from Brocade if you want high-density 10G, I can recommend VDX as well (we do use internally VDX6740) and it has 40G ports too, some
nice virtualization/hypervisor and ethernet fabric features, active-active links between fabric members and you can grow-up or scale-down as you like, but it is also worthwhile to mention ICX7750 or ICX6650 as they have 10G or/and 40G ports as well and some
IPv6 routing features which are due to be introduced to VDX platform in next few months.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">To the list you mentioned, I’d like to also add Arista Networks. It does 10G, 40G and it is ultra-low latency. Additionally, If you
have a linux background, you would love EOS operating system (firmware). You can go to linux shell directly from cli on a switch, install RPM packages, do python scripting and you have still your 10G performance and 380ns/less latency between ports. I do have
7124sx at the office and to demonstrate switch flexibility, I have managed to run Windows 8 on a switch using KVM hypervisor
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">There is a lots of features what I can talk about, but you can find it on a manufacturer website and I have just mentioned what I
thought could be relevant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Jiri<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Hudson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 3 June 2014 4:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Skeeve Stevens<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ausnog@ausnog.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] 10Gb Switching and HP COMOS5 vs 7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>I've used Brocade ICX and VDX kit for 10Gbps switching. My preference is their VDX kit, it has been faultless since installation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 03/06/2014 3:33 PM, "Skeeve Stevens" <<a href="mailto:skeeve%2Bausnog@eintellegonetworks.com">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just looking at upgrading some A5820's with A5900's...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone done this and know the differences between COMOS5 and COMOS7? HP say its backwards compatible, but I am wondering if there are any stories - good or bad - out there about doing it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also - what do people think in the 10Gb switching space?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- HP A5900 (48 ports)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Juniper EX4550 (32 ports)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Cisco 4500-X (32 ports)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Brocade equivalent?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Others?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The HP A5800 has 2mb packet buffers, the A5900 is 9mb.. the Cisco 4900 might have around 17mb, but I can't figure out what the Juniper has... nothing is listed here:
<a href="http://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/buffer.html" target="_blank">http://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/buffer.html</a> to even guess with.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Skeeve Stevens - </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">eintellego Networks Pty Ltd</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060">Juniper - Cisco - Cloud - Consulting - IPv4 Brokering</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F007F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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