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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">Fair question Skeeve
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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"> Skeeve Stevens [mailto:skeeve+ausnog@theispguy.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 20 April 2015 12:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Josh Tipping<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Cheapest half decent 10Gbps switch (for iSCSI only)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tell us about your packet buffers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Josh Tipping <<a href="mailto:josh.tipping@icita.com" target="_blank">josh.tipping@icita.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I can give you pricing and info on some Huawei switching options if you like (disclose: we are a disty).
Nothing down near the netgear stuff however, but you’d be looking at 24x10GE @ wire speed well under half the cost of the cisco/juniper options you’ve mentioned. Contact me off list if you are interested.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>James Cunningham<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 19 April 2015 12:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] Cheapest half decent 10Gbps switch (for iSCSI only)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question, so apologies in advance - but since most people here run high speed storage networks it is probably relevant.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Can I have some recommendations for low end, cost effective, 10Gbps switches (for iSCSI use)?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Only need around 8-10 ports per switch, and all the switches I'm looking at from the likes of Cisco and Juniper are around $20k-$30k a switch - seems pretty extreme really. I'm
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Looking for suggestions for a half decent switch to use here - doesn't have to be top of the line with heaps of features, just something very basic, as long as it's 10Gbps and has
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Looking at the Netgear XS712T, these are around the $2k mark, which is in the ballpark of what I need. Looked at the Netgear XSM7224 and DELL N4032, but these are around the $5k
mark per switch (but granted 24 ports with dual power supplies)<o:p></o:p></p>
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