[AusNOG] Low cost 10G SFP+ switches?

[James Andrewartha]

On Sat, 12 Dec 2015, Joshua D'Alton wrote:

> What is available in low cost switches that have SFP+ for 10G? The cheapest I've come up with is a Netgear...$670 24x1g 4xSFP+

Your link is to the D-Link DGS-1510-28X ...

> I feel like there must be other options for either pure or mixed SFP+ especially given all the China OEM/whitelabel things
> floating around DCs these days.
> 
> Does anyone have a favourite, doesn't need to be DC quality, also doesn't need to be advanced purely for layer2 not even MPLS or
> VLANs. Oh and doesn't need to have a lot of ports. Looking for lowest TCO, not per port efficiency (where I know you can get for
> a few k a 48 porter from eg Force10 etc).

I can't find anything cheaper with 4 SFP+ ports [1], but if you want to 
jump to 12 SFP+ ports, then the D-Link DXS-1210-12SC seems to be the 
cheapest around at $1489. Do note the review on Amazon "Unfortunately this 
switch is as noisy as a jet engine and therefore unusable for a home 
switch."
http://cplonline.com.au/d-link-dxs-1210-12sc-12-port-10-gigabit-websmart-switch.html 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PVDFUEM

[1] The Alloy AMS-24T4S4SFP is a touch more at $706.99 but I can hardly 
recommend them given the last Allow switch I used (over a decade ago I 
guess) had a nasty habit of crashing when you used the web interface. 
http://www.warcom.com.au/alloy-layer-2-snmp-managed-gigabit-switch

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