Re: Network Equipment Discussion (HP and L2/10G)

[Simon Leinen]

Deepak Jain writes:
 The wrinkle here is that I can't use a normal enterprise 10G switch
 because of the need for DWDM optics (ideally 80km style).

80km DWDM optics in SFP+ format should be available now or RSN.  Search
engines turn up a few purported vendors.  The ones I found conform to
the 100GHz grid, but 50GHz ones should be coming too.

Haven't tried any of those myself though.
-- 
Simon.

Network Equipment Discussion (HP and L2/10G)

[Deepak Jain]

Go figure, an actual thread about networking equipment on NANOG. :)

So reading Cisco's announcement, I go look at HP's higher end switching/routing 
line and I see some pretty beefy looking gear. A12500 and others. Does anyone 
have any experience with this thing -- is it white labeled from someone else?

Second question -- Does anyone know of a Cascade-style box (old days) for 10G 
aggregation? What I mean is I need about a number of ports of 10G (pluggable 
*colored* optics) with just normal L2 stuff (VLANs/dot1q) and I'd like to 
LACP/Port-channel that back to a pair of 10G ports on a router. The wrinkle 
here is that I can't use a normal enterprise 10G switch because of the need for 
DWDM optics (ideally 80km style). For this application, buffers and such are 
not an issue. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

DJ

Re: Network Equipment Discussion (HP and L2/10G)

[Joel Jaeggli]

On 5/13/11 8:14 AM, Deepak Jain wrote:
 
 Go figure, an actual thread about networking equipment on NANOG. :)
 
 So reading Cisco's announcement, I go look at HP's higher end
 switching/routing line and I see some pretty beefy looking gear.
 A12500 and others. Does anyone have any experience with this thing --
 is it white labeled from someone else?

3com aquisition/ Huawei joint venture

I took a look at the h3c s58xx sometime last year, I can report that
it's an ethernet siwtch.

 Second question -- Does anyone know of a Cascade-style box (old days)
 for 10G aggregation? What I mean is I need about a number of ports of
 10G (pluggable *colored* optics) with just normal L2 stuff
 (VLANs/dot1q) and I'd like to LACP/Port-channel that back to a pair
 of 10G ports on a router. The wrinkle here is that I can't use a
 normal enterprise 10G switch because of the need for DWDM optics
 (ideally 80km style). For this application, buffers and such are not
 an issue. Any suggestions?
 
 Thanks in advance,
 
 DJ