I second that.
I would give my right arm for a high density, inexpensive switch and/or
blade & matching set of copper & fibre SFPs that did 10/100/1000.
10 Megabit is still pretty fast for a downlink from ISP->Customer.
Switch vendors are so hell-bent on 10G, 40G+ stuff, they've forgotten
about the simple ergonomic conveniences of the still massively used
lower speed interfaces.
Saku Ytti wrote:
On (2008-09-25 13:43 +0200), Johannes Resch wrote:
In ES20, SFP-GE-T work in 10/100/1000 modes (caution: any GLC-* type SFPs
are not supported with ES20 at all). Not sure about the state of support
for auto-negotiation though, I personally have only used it with hardcoded
speeds.
What a sad state of affair. ES20 port price isn't very comparable
to 3750 port price when you just need that 10/100 option.
On a side note I noticed recently that brand spanking new cat4 E
10/100/1000 copper cards don't do auto MDI/X.
I'm pretty sure that MDI/X or multirate have no significant
cost addition, MDI/X doesn't even have business driver not
to include it. I guess multirate has business driver, force customers
to buy more.
I'm really tempted to finance shop that'll produce RJ45 PoE <-> SFP
transceivers. So that you'd buy transceiver that plugs to PoE port
and offers SFP port. You'd get multirate and tons of SFP ports
without the insane mark-up and poor density that vendors offer for
no valid reason other than 'because we can'.
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