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Re: fiber switch for gig

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (david raistrick)
Thu Apr 3 12:01:58 2008

Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 16:00:06 +0000 (UTC)
From: david raistrick <drais@icantclick.org>
To: Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9e246b4d0804030837l5a9a54adwa9be088b365a9578@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Tim Durack wrote:

> The HP 3500 is a fixed format 24/48 port 10/100/1000 with 4
> dual-personality SFP ports. You can slap a 10Gig expansion module in
> the back. Around $3k/$6k for the 24/48 port
>
> We only run basic L2 stuff, although the unit supports L3.

Foundry FLS624/648 is half that cost (well, 2500/3500), and the 10G 
modules are just SFPs....and if you're not doing L3, why buy L3? :) 
2x10G for the 24, 4x10G for the 48....


...david



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