[187389] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Equipment Supporting 2.5gbps and 5gbps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yang Yu)
Thu Jan 28 13:08:01 2016
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From: Yang Yu <yang.yu.list@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:07:16 -0600
To: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Brandon Butterworth
<brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
> With 10G it's been the opposite, nobody was using copper so SFP+ is
> cheap. Only recently has copper 10G started to become common, a bit too
> late to be worth bothering with now and as there are no copper SFP+
> Having new servers switch to copper instead of sfp is a nuisance
SFP+ Copper Twinax is another option for 10G to save on the transceivers
