<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Re switch availability... I live in a world of enterprise grade, and also mainstream vendors. Juniper has 1 switch (that I know), Cisco has a few line-cards and mostly higher-end Nexus models (2k - which are Fabric extenders, 5596T) and 6500 line-cards... the 4900 has some modules, but there is nothing (I think) in the Catalyst 3000 and below series.. in fact, even full 10G SFP+ is still rare at this level of switching.</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Cisco and Juniper both still have no all 10Gb (SFP+) switches in the low end (EX2200, EX3200, C29xx, C3xxx) ranges, much less 10GBase-T.</div></div></blockquote><div>Personally, I'm happy enough with Twinax, especially with cost where switching is in top-of-rack or in an adjacent rack. Originally, when I started to plan on 10 & 40GB rollouts, I did bemoan the lack of 10GBase-T, however, I don't feel like I've made any compromises due to that lack of choice anymore.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Peter.<br><br>-- <br><div><span name="x"></span>Peter Tonoli < peter@medstv.unimelb.edu.au > +61-3-9231-2399 <br>IT Manager <br>The University of Melbourne - Eastern Hill Academic Centre, St. Vincent's Institute and O'Brien Institute <span name="x"></span><br></div></div></div></body></html>