Networking giant Cisco Systems has been under attack for the past several years, and the company gearing up its high-end, converged Nexus switches to defend its data-center turf from encroachment by HP, Dell, Arista Networks, Juniper Networks, Brocade Communications, and others. Picking up the offensive pace and doing better …

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Wednesday 19th October 2011 08:00 GMT Anonymous Coward

Stuff the high end servers...

... we want Consumer 10Gbps now.

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1. Wednesday 19th October 2011 10:48 GMT Andy ORourke
  
  I'd be happy to get 8Mbps
  
  through the twisted bit of string connecting me to the exchange!
  
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Wednesday 19th October 2011 10:47 GMT pompurin

2gbps is available

A lot of motherboards come with 2x1gbps which can be bonded together. You need a switch that can support etherchannel though.

What on earth are you moving that requires 10gbps? I can't think of anything that a home user would need that much bandwidth for unless they were hosting their own data centre out of their loft.

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Wednesday 19th October 2011 13:52 GMT M. B.

Funny how Force 10 isn't listed...

I suspect we'll see their kit bundled with Compellent and high-end 10GbE EqualLogic arrays shortly, and their market share to increase.

Who knows, maybe they'll give everyone else a chance to catch up to them.

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