There is always the EX4550, 32 10Gb ports in 1U, with a module to add 8 more I believe
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Eugeniu Patrascu <eu...@imacandi.net> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Michel de Nostredame > <d.nos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi There~ >> >> One of my customers has some Cisco Nexus 7K but budget wise prevents >> him from buying N7K in new locations. His environment is pretty simple >> and straight forward. Lots of 10GE ports (around 2200 ports) divide >> into around 30+ VLANs. Then uplink to two MX routers (the border) and >> go to Internet. >> >> Previous setups were using N5K as L2 access switch and aggregate to >> N7K as core L3 switch, then multiple 10GE L3 uplinks to MX480. The N7K >> is doing VLAN routing and lots (total 3+ thousand lines) of ACL. >> >> The QFX total solution looks pretty interesting, but does not have too >> significant price difference compares to Nexus solution. >> >> Will Juniper ship new switch fabric on EX 8000 series to support >> line-rate high port density 10GE? (for example, 40 port line rate 10GE >> per slot.) >> > > If you do not really need line rate 40 x 10Gbps ports you can go with > EX8200-40XS and fill a 8216 with them. It's oversubscribed 5:1 in 5x8 > port groups. > Another option for a lot of 10G ports would be a stack of EX4500 > switches, but you would still be limited by the Virtual Chassis > available bandwidth (128Gbps Half-Duplex) - but if you can get some > flexibility as you can try to mix and match servers that talk to each > other on the same switch in order to have line rate 10G traffic and > avoid VC traffic. You can use the up-link modules to populate them > with 10G ports and do a MC-LAG to the MXs. > > Even with the QFabric, you would still need to run a lot of 40G > interconnect ports in order to have a high throughput fabric > backplane. > > Other vendor that might do (you should check with them) full line rate > 40+ 10GbE ports is Brocade with the new VDX 8770-8 switch (they claim > 4Tbps/slot and 384 ports per 15U chassis). > > HTH. > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp -- Brent Jones br...@brentrjones.com _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp