On 1/28/16 10:29 AM, Randy Carpenter wrote: > > I'd love to know what model Juniper you are getting for $102 per > 10GbE port and where you are getting it. The lowest-end 10GbE switch > is the EX4600, which lists at more like $850 per port. You can get > higher-end ones with much larger port counts and get the cost/port > down to about half that, but I can't imagine what you could be > talking about for $102/port. > > I would kill for a 24-port 10GbE Juniper switch for ~$2,500. You > can't even get a 24-port 1GbE for that.
a single asic trident+ switch with 56 10Gb/s ports is in the neighborhood of 5k, less in volume... trident 2 is more. lopping ports off doesn't make the asic any cheaper. > thanks, -Randy > > > > ----- On Jan 28, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Josh Reynolds > j...@kyneticwifi.com wrote: > >> You're buying your switches and optics in the wrong places. >> >> An SFP+ 10K w/ DOM is running me a little under $34. An SFP+ port >> runs me slightly over $102. (Juniper) >> >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Baldur Norddahl >> <baldur.nordd...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The standard 24 or 48 port SFP+ switch is 10 times the price of >>> the equivalent switch with 24 or 48 port SFP. The same is true >>> for the optics. >>> >>> 2.5 and 4 Gbit/s SFP modules are available and cheap. It is just >>> that ethernet ports will not take advantage of the extra speed. >>> So it is only useful on fibrechannel ports. >>> >>> It would be an improvement if we can get 2.5 or 4 Gbit/s ethernet >>> on SFP instead of paying for an all SFP+ switch. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Baldur >
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