[AusNOG] Low cost 10G SFP+ switches?

Cameron Murray cameron.murray at gmail.com
Mon Dec 14 14:14:46 EST 2015


They were about $1500

I have two spare ;)

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au>
wrote:

> I think we can safely assume dell switches won't be low cost ;-)
>
> sent from Android
> On 14 Dec 2015 1:36 pm, "Cameron Murray" <cameron.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dell Networking X4012
>>
>> http://www.dell.com/au/business/p/networking-x-series/pd
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Bradley Amm <
>> Bradley.Amm at telethonkids.org.au> wrote:
>>
>>> 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,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cool quiet Saturday night, with a easy question for those already onto
>>> the harder stuff...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Basically the rasberry pi of SFP+ switching... (hmm is that an option,
>>> Rpi with some dodgy chinese SFP+ switching modules soldered on?)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Enjoy the beers!
>>>
>>>
>>>
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