I’m running primarily 10 Gbps infrastructure, using a 24 port Arista fiber switch as my core. I also do have 2 8-port 40 Gbps switches, one ethernet and one Infiniband. Hamfests have been good to me! I will need to add another 10 Gbps switch, so that I can manage all the new Cat8 runs, but for now, those will likely terminate in a 1 Gbps switch, until I find another good deal. - Alex On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 14:55 Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 2/16/21 1:34 PM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Pretty crazy thinking how much data they can theoretically move.
I've seen references to 100Gi and 400Gi but I only see topology and it's hard to tell what's real as we can mock up data. A LAG built with 100Gi is pretty wild, 400Gi LAGs seems really farfarfarout. ;-)
As far as complexity, how about 'white boxes' where you load on Vendor X's OS on a generic network device and suddenly the network box looks like vendor X despite not even having that hardware in the box. Add SDN and IP over IP and vlans (and vlans in vlans) and I have some really interesting discussions with the SEs.
From morse code speed (28,8 bps perhaps) to 400Gi. in a span of ~200 years.
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