[vcf-midatlantic] SX GBIC fiber cable speed

Alexander Jacocks jjacocks at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 16:21:06 UTC 2021


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 at 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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