VC port carries inter switch traffic (potentially large) and also some state replication traffic. (not very much)
The answer mostly depends on how much your inter-switch traffic are. On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:17 AM, Valentini, Lucio <lucio.valent...@siag.it> wrote: > Hi there, > > I was wondering what speed of VC port is necessary if I have 10 Gbps ports > as traffic ports on a VC with EX4300; would VC ports at 10 Gbps be enough or > do I need 40 Gbps ports? The 2 switches will be over 100 meters apart from > each other, so I need to use the uplink module ports to make the VC. But the > EX4300-32F has also an 40 GbE additional uplink module, which could be used > if necessary. > > Also, if I need 40 GbE ports to make the VC, do I need single mode fibers to > cover 100 meters or is multimode sufficient? I found in some documentation > that with 40 GbE, single mode is necessary for distances over 150 meters: In > this case I really have to be careful about the measurement of the distance. > > Thanks for your thoughts > > Regards > > Lucio > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
