[AusNOG] Recommendation Top of Rack Switches

[Andrew Khoo]

mark,

would you be kind enough to summarize your findings, and possibly approx
pricing info?

it might be useful as i am sure there are other folks looking for ToR in
the move to 1/10.



On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Mark Currie <MCurrie at laserfast.com.au>
wrote:

> Thanks to all those who have responded….I have a few options to
> investigate now, but I do like the Brocade gear..
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> Cheers and Happy New Year.
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> Mark Currie
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Mark
> Currie
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 12 January 2016 11:59 AM
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> *Subject:* [AusNOG] Recommendation Top of Rack Switches
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> Hi Noggers and Happy New Year,
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> List has been pretty quiet!
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> Anyway, hoping some of you may be able to provide some recommendations for
> a couple of decent Top Of Rack (ToR) switches, requirements are 1Gb/10Gb,
> support for deep big buffers (iSCSI) and stacking, Layer 3 routing, VLAN’s
> (a given), budget of about $15k for 2 switches. (I know budget is low, but
> that’s what the client has to work with). Have looked at the Dell and HP
> ranges, and the ToR switch are out of the price range (HP is $30k-$50k for
> their converged gear)…Is a retail 24x7 environment, so must be robust and
> stable…
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> Please email me off-list, don’t want to clog the list unnecessarily.
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> Cheers,
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> Mark Currie
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