<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 30 May 2015, at 2:12 pm, Skeeve Stevens <<a href="mailto:skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com" class="">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>There are some new switches arriving that are mind-blowing.<div class=""><br class=""></div><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><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiGqRy5zgCM" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiGqRy5zgCM</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><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><div class=""><br class=""></div><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><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>That would be using Broadcom’s new Tomahawk chipset. Expect to see a flood of similar specced switches in the coming months.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://www.broadcom.com/products/Switching/Data-Center/BCM56960-Series" class="">https://www.broadcom.com/products/Switching/Data-Center/BCM56960-Series</a></div><br class=""></body></html>