[AusNOG] 10GBase-T SFP modules?

[David Hughes]

On 16/07/2014, at 11:28 AM, Reuben Farrelly <reuben-ausnog at reub.net> wrote:

> Netgear seem to also now have some 10G Copper options:
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> http://www.netgear.com.au/landing/10gigabit.aspx
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> Hopefully the prices will drop to a more reasonable level as time goes by.


We needed some 10GbE switching capacity for some storage lab testing we were doing.  We didn't want to spend heaps on the test kit so grabbed a couple of Netgear 8 Port 10Gig L2 switches just to punt packets around.  The testing involved a 4 node distributed SAN platform with about 20TB of high speed storage all being striped and replicated etc etc etc.  I must say the switches performed better than I expected.  I think we paid around $800 per switch (i.e. $100 per 10GBase-T port !!!!)  so it was certainly a cost effective way to test some storage technology.

A low-cost, L2 only, managed 10GbE switch from a more "data centre centric" vendor would a great addition for stand-alone storage fabrics.


Thanks

David
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