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The fibre and sfps are a tiny price of the entire solution DACs will be cheaper than fibre in a bay, but between neighbouring bays about the same. A 7m passiv
by iso1631 5mo ago
The fibre and sfps are a tiny price of the entire solution
DACs will be cheaper than fibre in a bay, but between neighbouring bays about the same.
A 7m passive 40g qsfp dac is £80. A pair of multimode 40g is £66 and 7m multimode cable is £10.
A 2m dac is £28, so fibre is 3 times the price.
- bobdvb 4mo agoAnd an extra £40~ per server is irrelevant if we're worried about an outage on £500k-£1.5m of gear and the services they provide.