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

[Sean K. Finn]

Wow!

That's pretty cheap and nasty!

It even has a matchingly awesome name, Edge-Core Tiger!

$400 for the 10G XFP's
http://www.optichaven.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=133&cPath=17#googlebase

$3399 for the 8 port switch,

And

About $600 for the Host adaptor.
http://www.provantage.com/edgecore-formerly-smc-networks-smc10gpcie-xfp~7SMCC16N.htm

Even in $USD this is looking in the right ballpark.

Some of the guys spend $600 on quad port 1G Intel Nic's for teaming so the Host adaptor pricing is in similar ballpark to what they're currently using. Sure they will have to chip in for the XFP's too but its right on the money.

S



From: Aaron Weller // Crucial Paradigm [mailto:aaron at crucialp.com]
Sent: Friday, 16 July 2010 1:05 PM
To: Sean K. Finn
Cc: 'ausnog at ausnog.net'
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Tech Q: Looking for Cheapest 10G Switches for Hobby Lan.

Not sure if these are the cheapest, but they are quite cheap!

http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProduct&localeCode=EN_USA&cid=8&scid=107&pid=1431

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&client=firefox-a&q=SMC8708L2&cid=851054025650646221&ei=gcs_TPe6KpSgjgTTq8HSCA&sa=title&ved=0CAcQ8wIwADgA#scoring=p

Regards,
Aaron




Sean K. Finn wrote:
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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