[AusNOG] Tech Q: Looking for Cheapest 10G Switches for Hobby Lan.

[Sean K. Finn]

Hi All,

Some of our staff run a hobby LAN one day a month that attracts about 100 players for 12-24 hours.

Currently the guys are running multi 1GB trunks, some 6GB trunks between switches and 4GB trunks to servers for the day, but there has been talk of wanting to experiment with 10Gb gear at a hobby level.

The budget isn't huge, maybe about $1,000 per month to spend on gear, but LAN days are usually good test beds to skill up and play with this kind of gear.

My Question is :What's the cheapest and nastiest 10Gb consumer grade gear, if it exists yet, that anyone knows about?

Both switches and cards.

Some of the guys mentioned http://www.extremenetworks.com/ , not sure if this is nasty enough though?

Cheers,
Sean.

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