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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Jiri Kosar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkosar@asi.com.au" target="_blank">jkosar@asi.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">







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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi All,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">))<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Jiri<u></u><u></u></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:<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>]
<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> <a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@ausnog.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] 10Gb Switching and HP COMOS5 vs 7<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 03/06/2014 3:33 PM, "Skeeve Stevens" <<a href="mailto:skeeve%2Bausnog@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just looking at upgrading some A5820's with A5900's...<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal">Also - what do people think in the 10Gb switching space?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- HP A5900 (48 ports)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Juniper EX4550 (32 ports)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Cisco 4500-X (32 ports)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Brocade equivalent?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Others?<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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