Re: 10Gb on budged with fiber — what should IP choose?

[Lev Serebryakov]

Hello Kevin,

Sunday, January 15, 2017, 1:03:16 PM, you wrote:

> Intel is overpriced and still riding their Ethernet reputation from well
> over a decade ago with little to show for it.  I would recommend cxgbe
> anything, so Chelsio T420 and up.  The T520-SO-CR is within reason for
> demanding home office/small office users to purchase new and I've deployed
> over a thousand of these at work with flawless performance.  T420 are a bit
> cheaper on i.e. US ebay if that is viable to you but not by too much.  I
> bought a T420-BT that way for home use and have no complaints.
  Looks like our views of term "budget" is very different :). If I could spend
 $200+/card then it would be noo-rainer.

> You can use DAC twinax cables to connect 10G SFP+ ports together.  This
> will save several watts of power and heat on each side vs 10G Base-T.
 Twinax is not what I could fit in my old house's (not datacenter!) cable ducts
 :( And new cable ducts means a LOT of dusty work (reinforced concrete
 walls) & new wallpapers & stuff.


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 Lev                            mailto:lev at freebsd.org