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

[Jason Bailey]

+1 for the Juniper EX3200s. They are excellent and relatively inexpensive.

Jason

On 16/07/2010 10:56 AM, McDonald Richards wrote:
> J EX3200s are probably the cheapest option I can think of for 10G trunk
> facing and GE to clients. I have also heard H3C are pretty competitive
> but have not actually used their gear.
>
> Macca
>
> *From:* ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Sean K. Finn
> *Sent:* Friday, 16 July 2010 12:19 PM
> *To:* 'ausnog at ausnog.net'
> *Subject:* [AusNOG] Tech Q: Looking for Cheapest 10G Switches for Hobby Lan.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> AusNOG mailing list
> AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog