> From: Patrick Cable [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 9:36 AM > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Edward Ned Harvey > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1G Ether is so cheap, but not as fast as desired. 10G ether is fast > > enough, but its overkill and why is it so bloody expensive? > > I find this observation interesting. While 10g is no gig-e on the price scale, I > recently put 20g of fiber into a dell blade chassis for > $4500 (interface cards/optics for 2 junipers, 6 dell optics, 4 stacking interfaces > for the blade chassis, 4 10g interface cards for the blade chassis). I expected > the prices to be much higher, so I guess it's all about expectations. > > And, agreeing with another poster - why not use bonding or aggregation?
See other email about lacp. Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places for 10G Ethernet adapters? When I look around, I see ... 1G adapters for $10. And 10G adapters for $500. Even if the 10G adapters were ... say ... $90... I would happily just buy it. But when we're talking $1000 just to connect computer A to computer B via crossover cable, I think we're getting pretty crazy. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
