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RE: So what's the deal with 10Gbase-T

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Weaver)
Wed Oct 3 09:56:01 2012

From: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
To: 'Miquel van Smoorenburg' <mikevs@xs4all.net>, "andreas@livejournalinc.com"
 <andreas@livejournalinc.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 09:54:58 -0400
In-Reply-To: <201210012127.q91LRtS5016977@xs8.xs4all.nl>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

It was really unfortunate of Intel to release Romley with 10G copper only s=
upport at launch, I hear though that soon there will be motherboards with t=
he SFP+ ports integrated.

-----Original Message-----
From: Miquel van Smoorenburg [mailto:mikevs@xs4all.net]=20
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 5:28 PM
To: andreas@livejournalinc.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: So what's the deal with 10Gbase-T

In article <CAJ0Nkqgy2x9pUg26CcjcHwDQSMY24f1U0RWmhF2PoH2eHih2zg@mail.gmail.=
com>,
Andreas Echavez  <andreas@livejournalinc.com> wrote:
>Does anyone here have experience running copper 10Gbase-T networks? It=20
>seems like the standard just died out.

Well, our new supermicro servers come with 10Gbase-T standard on the mother=
board.

>For us it would make a lot of sense
>for our applications -- even if throughput and latency aren't as great.=20
>If anyone out there knows of any *copper* 10 gig-t switches (48 port?)

Arista, http://www.aristanetworks.com/

Mike.



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