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

[Brad Gould]

Thinking laterally for a moment,

Careful design of your topology might make some things better.

Split game-servers and, ahem, "content" servers onto separate cose 
switch chassis, and have a separate uplink to each from the edge switches.

(And as long as your switches have a non-blocking fabric)

Or get a second hand Cisco 6509 (or any large chassis switch), and load 
it full of GE blades.  You'll easily get 100+ ports in it, and the 
switch backplane can be your (non) limiting factor.

Probably cheaper than any small scale 10Gig implementation (remember its 
chassic + optics cost you have to consider).

Brad



On 16/07/2010 14:27, Dmitri Kalintsev wrote:
> 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 <mailto:sean.finn at ozservers.com.au>> 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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