> The price tags for anything enterprise networking related are seriously inflated I mean yeah, but thats why you have negotiators. List price is what suckers

> The price tags for anything enterprise networking related are seriously inflated I mean yeah, but thats why you have negotiators. List price is what suckers pay. As soon as you start to buy in job lots, or the total price comes to >$500k then stuff becomes a lot cheaper all of a sudden (within reason) Having said that Infiniband is an arse to deploy, but not as much as custom networking protocol on custom silicon.