Cisco has vowed to push 40GE Ethernet switches into the mainstream while also improving its 10GE/40GE Nexus boxes. The transition to 10GE networking is well under way, and the convergence of server and storage traffic onto switches continues apace, albeit at a slower rate than Cisco Systems had hoped. Despite this, the …

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Monday 4th February 2013 18:36 GMT A Non e-mouse

Please Cisco, Juniper, et al, can we have some lower-end 10Gb/s switches ?

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1. Monday 4th February 2013 20:47 GMT justincormack
  
  low end
  
  Netgear have http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2012/10/9/netgear-announces-new-10gbe-switches.aspx so more should start to arrive soon,
  
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Monday 4th February 2013 23:02 GMT RonWheeler

Latency

Stick a few Cisco switches together with their wonderful interface-specific block-first logic Spend s41tloads - make your network crawl. Bandwidth is vanity - latency is what people notice. And I'm talking to you too cloud providers.

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1. Thursday 7th February 2013 11:29 GMT P_
  
  Re: Latency
  
  Ron,
  
  Would you mind explaining a bit more about your comment "interface-specific block-first logic", please? I do LAN and DC work but I've not come across this before and it sounds interesting </geek>
  
  TIA.
  
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Wednesday 6th February 2013 00:44 GMT Aboriginal

Promisware

Why so many ...release end of first half this year, after second quarter, end of century, whateva? Products not ready at all? Cisco peeing in the pants when Arista just delivers.

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