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 <na...@ics-il.net> 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? > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com