The NetVana 1544 is also a L3 Switch and does OSPF/BGP too! Heh.

> On Jun 13, 2016, at 7:26 PM, Josh Baird <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There -could- be a router doing L3 behind the switch.  It's not that 
> uncommon, right?
> 
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Switch?  If people do layer 2 over $6,000+ microwave for backbone links 
> between two POPs, that is a really bad idea in my opinion. WISPs love to 
> build layer 2 clusterfucks because a lot of small ones start with basically 
> no OSPF or BGP knowledge.
> 
> Show me a real router platform that is in common use that supports 2.5 Gbps 
> SFP (not SFP+ on a rate limited port).
> 
> On Jun 11, 2016 10:29 AM, "Jon Auer" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Adtran NetVanta 1544 Ethernet switches (24xGigE, 4xSFP) have been 2.5G 
> capable since 2009.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> There are such things as 2.5 Gbps SFPs used for fiber channel storage array 
> applications (example: Cisco MDS9000) but you will not see them used in 
> ethernet speaking routers/switches.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Erich Kaiser <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Check with John, but I thought he said something about a 2.5Gbps SFP, not 
> sure why they did not go 10G....
> 
> 
> Erich Kaiser
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> 
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Cassidy B. Larson <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> So I’m checking out the new Trango StrataPro data sheets… The Xi model 
> appears to do 4Gbps full-duplex.. but no 10G SFP+.. So I’d have to use all 
> three SFPs, and one copper gig to get it?
> 
> Other notes: it appears they’re keying it up.. so you get to pay extra to 
> unlock capacity to 1100Mbps and again to unlock max capacity to 2200Mbps.
> Oh and if you want AES-256, you get to pay again.  The 1MB packet buffer.. 
> seems low.
> 
> Anybody else have any thoughts?  Anybody got one yet?
> 
> -c
> 
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