Re: 1G/10G BaseT switch recommendation

[Adam Thompson <athompson () merlin mb ca>]

If you've already looked at Cisco, Juniper, Extreme, Juniper, and Arista, that's the big ones.  Everything else is 
increasingly niche vendors.
-Adam


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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+athompson=merlin.mb.ca () nanog org> on behalf of Drew Weaver <drew.weaver () thenap com>
Sent: July 22, 2021 13:46
To: 'nanog () nanog org' <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: 1G/10G BaseT switch recommendation


Hello everyone,



I’m looking for recommendations from the community on 48x10G RJ45/4-6 SFP28 (uplink ports) switches that people 
actually like working with.



Features are VPC or non-vendor specific equivalent, L2/L3 BGP/OSPFv3, ACLs, functional CoPP and some sort of API to 
manage them. [the CLI would work, my lib can handle most Networking OS CLIs anyway]



My problem point is coming from the RJ45 requirement, most vendors have one switch that they sell that is RJ45 at 10G 
or at the most one in each line (enterprise/datacenter) and they seem to be almost an afterthought. [probably because 
SFP28 is better in every way if you are already using fiber at the endpoint] sadly, we are not.



I just want to make sure I am not excluding any vendors from my research.



I appreciate any suggestions or recommendations. Can even keep it off-list if you want.



Thanks,

-Drew