andy@shady.org replied: Subject: Re: switch 10G standalone TOR, core to DC Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:25:57 +0000 From: andy <andy@shady.org> To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> CC: Piotr <piotr.1234@interia.pl>, nanog@nanog.org Force10's S4810 isnt bad, we use these for a 10G 48 port box that doesnt require Ultra Low latency. http://www.scribd.com/doc/90301756/Dell-Force10-S4810-Spec-Sheet Supports TRILL in some way too, Ive not had any major issues with this box, 1 or 2 bugs, but force10 (now dell) seem quick to fix these. They also have the Z9000 series, Ive not looked at this, but it might be worth having a quick look and see if it fits. on the rest, what nick said..... :) On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:58:14AM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
On 29/01/2013 11:27, Piotr wrote:
Extreme 670 looks good but they have small port buffers. It can be also some small chassis with line cards but the cost per 10G ports is too big..
the extreme x670, juniper ex4550, brocade ICX6550 and arista 7150 will most of this, and probably many others too.
None of them will do trill. The Extreme X670 and Juniper EX4550 will both do VPLS, though. The X670 won't do BGP.
You won't find a box of this form with large port buffers. There don't appear to be any of these boxes on the market at the moment, probably because none of the switch vendors want to bite the bottom out of their more lucrative chassis-based switches. This is a good market opening for a new vendor - there is no technical reason why this couldn't be done.
Nick
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