Al3sinth
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Charleston, WV
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April 14th, @01:07PM
| Looking for a Fiber Switch
I am looking for a switch with 24 or more 10 Gigabit SFP ports. I haven't had much luck finding what I am looking for so any help is appreciated |
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sdsfddgoigweehw
| I havent used a full 24 port version. But Force10 makes i believe a 20 port 10 gig switch. I have used the 24 port CX4 version. They are a steal of a deal as well, i think i paid $4K for it. This is layer 2 only though, but great for aggregating 10 gig links. |
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asdfasressdg
| oops, i guess i had that backwards. They do have a 24 port XFP version. The CX4 version only has 20 ports plus 4 XFP ports. |
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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Greenville, SC
clubs: | reply to sdsfddgoigweehw
A steal of a deal would be $100 or less. 4k is wallet rape. |
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wdfghae4w
| reply to Al3sinth
you must be kidding. Go try to find a 1U 24 port 10 gig switch from other manufacturers. Thats if you can even find one. $4K is a great deal. |
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DaMaGeINC
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clubs: | What in the world would use that much bandwidth in the 1st place? Countries are not even connected with that much bandwidth. |
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Al3sinth
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Thanks for the info sdsfddgoigweehwasdfasressdgwdfghae4w! |
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JoelC707
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Tucson, AZ
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I doubt it is for any one application or computer. More likely it is for a backbone connection. I'd guess it could be a large corporation with multiple floors. Each floor has an IDF with a gigabit switch serving it and the MDF has the core switch connecting all the gigabit IDFs together. To keep the core MDF from being the bottleneck you would need more bandwidth in the MDF than the IDFs have. |
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Corvus
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If you've got the budget go for Cisco 7600 Series, it's designed for building MPLS backbone and you can't go wrong with capacity up to 720 Gbps in a single chassis! 
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