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Options for who? 5GBASE-T can run on Cat5e/Cat6 cabling which people probably already have. This makes the router a viable product, which can improve your home
by m000 2y ago
Options for who?
5GBASE-T can run on Cat5e/Cat6 cabling which people probably already have. This makes the router a viable product, which can improve your home network performance with minimal investment, just by swapping out your old router.
OTOH, the dual SFP+ configuration is more on the exotic side. It may make sense on some professional setting (or some outlier home network configurations - like yours), but I guess this is not the intended market.
- simoncion 2y ago> Options for who? The operator of the device. Who were you thinking of? > 5GBASE-T can run on Cat5e/Cat6 cabling which people probably already have. There are SFP and SFP+ modules that will do 1, 2.5, 5, and 10GBASE-T just fine. If the operator wants to run 1GBASE-T, they can. If the operator wants to run 10GBASE-[SL]R, they can do that, too. Options. > The dual SFP+ configuration is more on the exotic side. 1) Used to be that having a gigabit Ethernet port was on the exotic side, too. (If we go far enough back, 10mbit was hella fancy.) Times change. 2) Here are two SFP+ ports for ~140 USD. [0] Here are four for 150USD. [1] Times change, man. [0] <https://mikrotik.com/product/css318_16g_2s_in https://mikrotik.com/product/css318_16g_2s_in> [1] <https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in>