[123564] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10GBase-t switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Oberman)
Thu Mar 11 01:04:55 2010
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:26:16 +0900."
<m2y6hzzgh3.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:04:07 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> 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.
Some of their salescritters can be annoying, too, but YMMV. We may have
just hit a bad one.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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