Why don't we just swap out your 40g switch for a 100g switch? You've had the
40g one for a while, and we anticipate upgrades every 18-24 months.
-Bill
> On Aug 20, 2017, at 08:46, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I first sent to an IX-specific mailing list, but as I have yet to see the
> message hit the list, I figured I would post it here as well.
>
> We've had multiple requests for 100G interfaces (instead of Nx10G) and no one
> seems to care about the 40G interfaces we have available.
>
> Looking at cost effective options brings us to whitebox switches. Obviously
> there's a wide range of hardware vendors and there are a few OSes available
> as well. Cumulus seems to be the market leader, while IPinFusion seems to be
> the most feature-rich.
>
> We're not doing any automation on the switches at this time, so it would
> still need decent manual configuration. It wouldn't need a Cisco-centric CLI
> as we're quite comfortable managing standard Linux-type config files. We're
> not going all-in on some overlay either given that we wouldn't be replacing
> our entire infrastructure, only supplementing it where we need 100G. I know
> that LINX has gone IPinfusion. What OS would be appropriate for our usage?
> I'm not finding many good comparisons of the OSes out there. I'm assuming any
> of them would work, but there may be gotchas that a "cheapest that meets
> requirements" doesn't quite unveil.
>
> Any particular hardware platforms to go towards or avoid? Broadcom Tomahawk
> seems to be quite popular with varying control planes. LINX went Edgecore,
> which was on my list given my experience with other Accton brands. Fiberstore
> has a switch where they actually publish the pricing vs. a bunch of mystery.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
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> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
>
> Midwest-IX
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