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> There also aren't many copper 10 gig top-of-rack switches, just the Cisco Nexus 3064T and Arista 7050T come to mind. Juniper doesn't even have one. I might b
by donavanm 12y ago
> There also aren't many copper 10 gig top-of-rack switches, just the Cisco Nexus 3064T and Arista 7050T come to mind. Juniper doesn't even have one.
I might be missing your definition of tor. The juniper QFX5100 series has the 48T which does 48x 10GBASE-T plus 6x QSFP. the 5100-96S does 96x SFP+ and 8x QSFP. There are plenty of other cheap merchant silicon platforms that look similar. Personlly Im happy with DAC on SFP+ ports.
- skuhn 12y agoOh yeah, I always forget about the QFX series. Seems like that would do the job. List prices are utter nonsense for switches, but the QFX does come in above the other two I mentioned. Perhaps because of its fibre-channely nature that no one (I hope) cares about. QFX5100-48T: $24,000 Nexus 3064-T: $13,000 7050T-52: $20,000 Still, any of these would work if you get the right deal. I could see an advantage for 10g copper if I had mixed racks where not all of my hosts needed 10g on the server side, but that's a big premium to pay over 1g TOR if you aren't using lots of 10 gig ports. For me, I just use copper on 1 gig racks and DAC on 10 gig racks. So far, so good.