*nods* Usually, I don't need lots of ports. Usually, just a few will do. That's the annoying thing: they usually come with (and I'm exaggerating to avoid getting caught up in minutiae) two high-speed ports or 50, but rarely six, eight, or ten.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Beecher" <[email protected]> To: "North American Network Operators Group" <[email protected]> Cc: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2025 6:52:56 AM Subject: Re: Low Cost 400G?? * Lots of ports * Lots of FIB * Cheap Pick 2 On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM Mike Hammett via NANOG < [email protected] > wrote: Is it paradoxical to wonder what low-cost full table (or close to it) 400G options there are? An earlier thread looks like the Arista 7280QR-C36 is "almost" there for 100G at a reasonable $3k, but a quick look at 400G-capable goes up, well, 4x in price, though one does get fully into DFZ capable devices then. It seems like anything with more than low 6 digit route capability goes into full-scale multi-million capability, which is great technically, but not so great financially. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XZVYJ7UTXPKQAHM7SD5R5XMMQQKYOVNH/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EBIZEKLSRZXGS3IEYUAXJ4NL4QQO3VSW/
