Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:51:00 -0800 From: Dave Temkin <davet1@gmail.com>
Kevin Oberman wrote:
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:26:16 +0900 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
arista 7120t-4s...
hot box. but you are giving away the secret sauce!
Hot box for the datacenter, but small buffers make it unsuited for long distances. In the right place, this box can't be beaten in the price/performance realm.
Can you point to another 1U box that has more than 16MB per-port buffer?
I cannot. It's just that this is not enough buffer for longer distances with multiple well loaded ports. As I keep saying, this is the best price/performance box I have seen. I am not criticizing it, just pointing out that it may not be the solution to all purposes. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751