<div dir="ltr"><div>There is a lot going on in switching.</div><div><br></div><div>NBase-T is curious.. 2.5Ge and 5Ge but I'm not sure that it will get much uptake... it's cost justification over 10Gbase-T isn't much, and what you get for it isn't much. The speed demands will exceed the 2.5Ge and 5Ge too quickly (in my opinion) and 10GBase-T can do 55m on Cat6 and 100 on Cat6a... You just get a small advantage with 2.5/5 on Cat5e.</div><div><br></div><div>Though, with Cisco doing it... you never know: <a href="http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/enterprise-networks/catalyst-multigigabit-switching/multigigabit-ethernet-technology.pdf">http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/enterprise-networks/catalyst-multigigabit-switching/multigigabit-ethernet-technology.pdf</a> - But honestly, right now I don't see Cisco an innovator in the switching space.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>There are some new switches arriving that are mind-blowing.<div><br></div><div>I'd love to play with the Dell's Z9100-ON. Check out: <a href="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</a> </div><div><br></div><div>and video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiGqRy5zgCM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiGqRy5zgCM</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Multi-rate... 10Ge, 25Ge, 40Ge, 50Ge, 100Ge on the same ports using different optics - with flexible operating systems... Cumulus and Pica8 I hope.</div><div><br></div><div>Each port can be split into 4 x 10Ge/25Ge... 128 x 25Ge per 1RU chassis. Talk about mother of all density.</div><div><br></div><div>I've been working on the Arista 7050QX and building lots of 80Ge port-channels... loving the speed and the new amazing features... just not how slow vendors are in releasing some specific features... but Arista is still ahead of the pack compared to some others.</div><div><br></div><div>So John... maybe yeah.. 2 x 40Ge QSFP+ for small Lab testing... that would be nice :)</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br>...Skeeve</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><b style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">Skeeve Stevens - Founder & Chief Network Architect</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px"> </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px">eintellego Networks Pty Ltd</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">Email: </span><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px" target="_blank">skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px">Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; S<a>kype: skeeve</a></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px">LinkedIn: <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/skeeve" target="_blank">/in/skeeve</a> ; Expert360: <a href="https://expert360.com/profile/d54a9" target="_blank">Profile</a></p></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 1:34 PM, John Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=jaedwards@gmail.com" target="_blank">jaedwards@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Also worth a mention are the NBASE-T switches arriving at an industry near you this year.</div><div><br></div><div>While I doubt anyone on this list has a real need for 2.5G copper ports, having this feature available will change the economics of 10G aggregation switches as they wont just be in the core/datacentre any more.</div><div><br></div><div>I also expect that Skeeve will be asking the same question about a switch with 2x 40G ports this time next year :)</div><div><br></div><div>John <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 30 May 2015, at 10:15 am, Josh Tipping <<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=josh.tipping@icita.com" target="_blank">josh.tipping@icita.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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I don't need much super fancy, but a 1RU form factor with rack mounting would be nice. A selection of 1Gb copper ports obviously. Remote ssh (or telnet if I have to) would be appreciated - not GUI please.</span></font></div>
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