Re: Equipment Supporting 2.5gbps and 5gbps

[Randy Carpenter <rcarpen () network1 net>]

I'd love to know what model Juniper you are getting for $102 per 10GbE port and where you are getting it. The 
lowest-end 10GbE switch is the EX4600, which lists at more like $850 per port. You can get higher-end ones with much 
larger port counts and get the cost/port down to about half that, but I can't imagine what you could be talking about 
for $102/port.

I would kill for a 24-port 10GbE Juniper switch for ~$2,500. You can't even get a 24-port 1GbE for that.

thanks,
-Randy



----- On Jan 28, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Josh Reynolds josh () kyneticwifi com wrote:

> You're buying your switches and optics in the wrong places.
>
> An SFP+ 10K w/ DOM is running me a little under $34. An SFP+ port runs
> me slightly over $102. (Juniper)
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Baldur Norddahl
> <baldur.norddahl () gmail com> wrote:
> > The standard 24 or 48 port SFP+ switch is 10 times the price of the
> > equivalent switch with 24 or 48 port SFP. The same is true for the optics.
> >
> > 2.5 and 4 Gbit/s SFP modules are available and cheap. It is just that
> > ethernet ports will not take advantage of the extra speed. So it is only
> > useful on fibrechannel ports.
> >
> > It would be an improvement if we can get 2.5 or 4 Gbit/s ethernet on SFP
> > instead of paying for an all SFP+ switch.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Baldur