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

[Dmitri Kalintsev]

I may be brutally out of touch with the reality, but what about Huawei, ZTE
and Force 10?

-- Dmitri

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Sean K. Finn
<sean.finn at ozservers.com.au>wrote:

>  Hi All,
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> Some of our staff run a hobby LAN one day a month that attracts about 100
> players for 12-24 hours.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> My Question is :What’s the cheapest and nastiest 10Gb consumer grade gear,
> if it exists yet, that anyone knows about?
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> Both switches and cards.
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> Some of the guys mentioned http://www.extremenetworks.com/ , not sure if
> this is nasty enough though?
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> Cheers,
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> Sean.
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