Too early for copper 10GbE?

[Steve Modica]

[Lorenz Redlefsen] “(I don’t think it’s fair to compare the per-port cost of an el cheapo 10/100/1000 switch with an enterprise-class 10G-capable switch, with redundant power, cooling, etc. It *is* true that there aren’t any el cheapo 10G-capable switches today, so 10G does not compare favorably when you compare “cheapest-to-cheapest”.)”

I think for most of the people on this forum, the enterprise stuff is cost they don’t want to incur. (For example, redundant power and fans). In most cases, the switch is off at night and they never use layer 3. They want really fast layer 2. One reason we carry edge-core is they are very inexpensive, but use a nice broadcom chipset that can do flow control correctly (FYI, the 10GbaseT vendors we’re aware of won’t do flow control correctly with a negotiated 1Gb link. I’d love to hear if someone out there can!)

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications