If people say no to these cookies, we do not know how many people have visited and we cannot monitor performance. It may not be entirely clear what is holding back the x86 server racket in the most recent quarter — round up the usual suspects — but networking market watcher Dell'Oro says it knows what isn't helping as it was expected: 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
In a report casing the 10GE server adapter market it is a bit hard to figure out …. It's no good having cheap 10G Ethernet cards in your servers if the switches still cost a bloody fortune. I'm not sure who you're looking at but ToR 10GBe switches aren't that bad.
Arista seems to have the lead in this space. I've been having a look around at 10Gb kit. The adapters aren't the problem, IMHO. It's the switches. You either get a 1Gb switch with one or two 10Gb uplinks too few , or a 24 port 10 Gb switch with no other ports. If switch manufacturers can produce smaller and cheaper switches, I'd be much more likely to move towards 10Gb.
Until then, I'll just sit and wait. Why waste the 10Gbps real estate on 1Gpbs when a smaller 1Gbps switch is much cheaper? There's not many instances I know of where my clients have elected to spend on 10Gbps for any specific application. All the ones that come to mind are HPC-related and none of those represent the sort of volume that would start to shift the industry as a whole. Second, you can go 10GBe at the switch and then have your legacy hardware running, and then add in new 10GBe kit as you build out the rack.
Some 1U boxes can only house a single PCIe slot which may already be in use. They cost roughly three times as much as high quality Gigabit adapters. Spending that much on organic tech growth is pretty much discretionary. The market is not going to take off until this becomes more balanced. For a small network machines? Meanwhile, at work, our enterprisey IT department wanted four figures for a single GbE port My university made use of 10Gbps links between the core switches, and that worked well.
Cisco now offer 40Gbps as I am sure other network providers do. The problem is cost - for a laugh I quickly priced up a Cisco with 16 x 10Gbps ports and 2 x 40Gbps uplinks:.
Obviously that's including the VAT and if you're buying that kind of kit, you'll have a discount relationship with Cisco, but even so, when you're talking multiple thousands per port, it just goes to support what everybody else is saying with regards to the cost of the switchgear.
Simple response here is don't use Cisco. Bits at 10G speeds aren't far apart little over an inch , and the circuitry to figure it all out isn't easy to get right. Given that, it may be easier to just have point to point links between things in your server farm, and forgo the switches entirely. If you're willing to get your hands dirty, 10gbps is achievable.
You won't quite have the throughput of something more expensive from Cisco or even the relatively cheap Ubiquiti, but it's likely that your local traffic wouldn't saturate those devices anyhow. Here's a video that recommends basically the same setup: Even if you decide to stick with Ethernet, you might have to re-run your cabling depending on the length of your runs.
Technically, CAT 6A is usually the recommended standard for a 10gbps network, but 6 and even 5e have been known to work on especially short distances. Edit: If you're determined to get the cheapest 10gbps switch with 8 ethernet ports, this is pretty much the cheapest , unless you can score something used on ebay. Sorry if this isn't quite the information you wanted, but the path to 10gbps home networking isn't quite as simple as hopping over to Best Buy quite yet. Last edited: Feb 19, Krixon said:.
EniGmA Limp Gawd. Joined May 2, Messages Ranulfo 2[H]4U. Joined Feb 9, Messages 2, Anyone tried this Trendnet switch? Cheaper than the Qnap. Joined Aug 31, Messages 2, These are the most interesting 10Gbps prosumer switches. OFaceSIG said:. Unless you have multiple VLANs, or need multiple vlans I don't personally see the need for managed switches. Joined May 18, Messages 52, Joined Dec 19, Messages I would pick up a used S60 for 60 whole dollars free shipping.
I use this as my main, is loud, not for the living room lol. Force10 switches have an easy CLI as well, bonding and making lags are easy too.
I did mention those points. Joined Dec 18, Messages 9, Why does it seem like 10gbit ethernet should be common place as it is pennies on the dollar to implement the circuitry onto motherboards? It seems as if we are paying a premium for something that should be as common as a cheap ass TPLink switch on a Microcenter ghetto clearance shelf.
With the common place of NVMe and the fact I literally just read an aritcle that SATA is going the way of the dodo because of the massive push for all NVMe devices it would seem that 1g switching should also go the way of the dodo. Caporegime Joined: 20 Sep Posts: 26, The issue is that 10 Gbit switching is only in datacenters at the core and distribution layers, access switches are still 1 Gbit and even then I still see some Mbit switches!
There are a few exceptions with workstation users but that's not a typical use case scenario. Also the majority of home users won't see any benefit for going to 10 Gbit.
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