if there's budget to spend £4000 on a 10G switch, the OP should look at something like a QuantaMesh BMS T3048-LY8, which will run one of the ONIE operating systems (i.e. linux). This will give 48x10G + 4x40G instead of 24x10G.
+1 We've deployed a few of these to production, c.f. http://blog.mythic-beasts.com/2015/09/14/linux-for-switches/ Regards, Pete -- Pete Stevens [email protected] http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/ The last time humans crossed space to a destination was the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. In the 32 years since, no man has seen, with his own eyes, Earth as that beautiful, solitary blue sphere, and - reality check - no woman has ever seen it at all. -- James Cameron
