[AusNOG] Low cost 10G SFP+ switches?

Joshua D'Alton joshua at railgun.com.au
Mon Dec 14 14:08:49 EST 2015


I think we can safely assume dell switches won't be low cost ;-)

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On 14 Dec 2015 1:36 pm, "Cameron Murray" <cameron.murray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dell Networking X4012
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> http://www.dell.com/au/business/p/networking-x-series/pd
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> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Bradley Amm <
> Bradley.Amm at telethonkids.org.au> wrote:
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>> Mellanox
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>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Joshua
>> D'Alton
>> *Sent:* Saturday, 12 December 2015 6:12 PM
>> *To:* AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* [AusNOG] Low cost 10G SFP+ switches?
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>> Hola list,
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>> Cool quiet Saturday night, with a easy question for those already onto
>> the harder stuff...
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>> 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+
>> <http://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Networking_-_Wired/Gigabit_Switches/58774-DGS-1510-28X>
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> Basically the rasberry pi of SFP+ switching... (hmm is that an option,
>> Rpi with some dodgy chinese SFP+ switching modules soldered on?)
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>> Enjoy the beers!
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