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On 30 May 2015, at 2:47 pm, Russell Brenner <<a href="mailto:rbrenner@Brocade.com">rbrenner@Brocade.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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10GBASE-T is pretty nasty in terms of power consumption, so the MGBASE-T will provide a few other lower power options (as well as EEE for 10GBASE-T).
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<div class="">There are presently no options for 802.11ac wave 2 when it hits the market, since 10GBASE-T + PoE+ would require an enormous amount of power and subsequent cooling, not something that bodes well with enterprise comms environments. </div>
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<div class="">And FWIW, QSFP Twinax is pretty inexpensive these days, I mean, it’s not cheap, but it’s not ridiculous, so maybe your lab dreams are just around the corner Skeeve. We’ve plenty of customers that have it running in smaller environments and labs. </div>
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<div class="">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>
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<div class="">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" class="">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>
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<div class="">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" class="">http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-Networking-Z9100-spec-sheet.pdf</a> </div>
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<div class="">Multi-rate... 10Ge, 25Ge, 40Ge, 50Ge, 100Ge on the same ports using different optics - with flexible operating systems... Cumulus and Pica8 I hope.</div>
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<div class="">Each port can be split into 4 x 10Ge/25Ge... 128 x 25Ge per 1RU chassis. Talk about mother of all density.</div>
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<div class="">So John... maybe yeah.. 2 x 40Ge QSFP+ for small Lab testing... that would be nice :)</div>
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<div class="">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>
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<div class="">Huawei S5700-28X-LI is a good option. 24x1G and 4x10G SFP+. Sell to the channel for well under $1.5k and do everything you're after. I likely have demo stock of one too if you'd like to give one a try, let me know offlist.</div>
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<div class=""><font face="arial, sans, sans-serif" class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class="">What a piece of junk. The OS isn't too bad but the switch hardware can't even keep its 10Gb ports up for very long without dying with little errors. What
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access supported. 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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