Re: 10GBase-t switch

["Kevin Oberman" <oberman () es net>]

> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:51:00 -0800
> From: Dave Temkin <davet1 () gmail com>
>
> Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:26:16 +0900
> > > From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
> > >
> > >     
> > > > arista 7120t-4s...
> > > >       
> > > hot box.  but you are giving away the secret sauce!
> > >     
> >
> > Hot box for the datacenter, but small buffers make it unsuited for
> > long distances. In the right place, this box can't be beaten in the
> > price/performance realm.
> >
> >   
> Can you point to another 1U box that has more than 16MB per-port buffer?

I cannot. It's just that this is not enough buffer for longer distances
with multiple well loaded ports.

As I keep saying, this is the best price/performance box I have seen. I
am not criticizing it, just pointing out that it may not be the solution
to all purposes.
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