Comment by exabrial
20 hours ago
Here's a dumb question, tangentially related, since they have a 10gig L2 switch mentioned... How come nobody (almost) makes L2 10gig switches? Ubiquiti has a 8port L2, that really seems to be it.
20 hours ago
Here's a dumb question, tangentially related, since they have a 10gig L2 switch mentioned... How come nobody (almost) makes L2 10gig switches? Ubiquiti has a 8port L2, that really seems to be it.
Do you mean specifically as consumer products?
There are loads of 10GbE switches from Cisco/Juniper/Arista/et al.
I'd guess so.
The last time I was checking (which was over 5 years ago now admittedly) there were no 10GbE switch options for reasonable prices. Juniper had good 16 port options with 1GbE interfaces at not crazy prices (which I have two of).
Going to 10GbE was many multiples of the 1GbE price. They just seemed way too expensive and were not dropping.
As it goes, maxing out 1GbE is fast enough for the sort of data and IOPS I send over my LAN. So 10GbE would probably have been overkill.
The 10Gb twisted pair cable requirements can bite you also. You may be working with who knows what installed cable that can't push it reliably. Or as a DIY person you may not understand exactly what to buy or limitations on running it.
1Gb is fast enough, cheap, and basically foolproof.
Enterprise 10G SFP+ switches has been pretty cheap on eBay for longer than that. While you can plug in an rj45 SFP it's just cheaper and better to use DAC cables.
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Mikrotik has quite a few, I've been happily using CRS306 and CRS312 for some years now.
Do you mean like most vendors have moved onto faster port speeds? Mostly you can still use the slower 10G optics and the ports will clock down even if the nominal port speed is higher.
Not counting Cisco, juniper etc? Can probably get 32port 10G on eBay for cheap. There's also some on Amazon and AliExpress. And tons of white label options.