On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:58 PM, David Mathog wrote: > A lot of 1 GbE switches use around 15W/port so I thought 10 GbE switches > would be real fire breathers. It doesn't look that way though, the > power consumption cited here: > > http://www.voltaire.com/NewsAndEvents/Press_Releases/press2010/Voltaire_Announces_High_Density_10_GbE_Switch_for_Efficient_Scaling_of_Cloud_Networks > > is "the industry’s lowest power consumption of 6.3 watts/port" or 302W. > I wonder what tricks they used to increase the speed to 10 GbE and drop > the power consumption.
Not using 10GBase-T? It uses SFP+ which do not use much power. Scott _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
