[103469] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: fiber switch for gig
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pekka Savola)
Wed Apr 2 01:46:15 2008
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 08:44:23 +0300 (EEST)
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Andrew Staples <andrews@ltinet.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <001401c89464$86221480$92663d80$@net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Andrew Staples wrote:
> Speaking of running gig long distances, does anyone on the list have
> suggestions on a >8 port L2 switch with fiber ports based on personal
> experience? Lots of 48 port gig switches have 2-4 fiber uplink ports, but
> this means daisy-chains instead of hub/spoke. Looking for a central switch
> for a star topography to home fiber runs that is cost effective and works.
Nortel 5530 has 24x copper, 12x SFP and 2x10GE (XFP):
http://www.nortel.com/ers5530
We don't have 5530's but we have good experience with 5510 as L2
device. In your case you may be looking for a larger number of SFP GE
ports though.
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