[Cialug] OT: 10 Gigabit Ethernet

[Jon Clemons]

We just rolled out some 3Com switches with 10g GBICS between wiring closets
and floors for a client using multi mode fiber.  Never personally liked 3Com 
switches
and their CLI is still hard to get used to when your familiar with Cisco's.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bierce" <david at bierce.org>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] OT: 10 Gigabit Ethernet


> It looks great for SANs.  I was looking at HP some ProCurve Equipment 
> that had 10g GBICS that used Cat6 STP or UTP up to 100 meters as the 
> medium.  It's scary to think of the cost per port for a switch that  could 
> actually handle saturating a few of those links.
>
> Dave
>
>