Whose tried the Netgear $100/port 10gbase-T switches?

[Emulex]

I noticed them in channel. 8 port $800.

Also the high end managed model was 24 port for $4100'ish.

Just need some netgear 10G-base-T nic's to go along with them.

Pretty soon rosewill will be selling them for $100 😉

 

[cmetz]

Rumor has it that Intel's going to be including a 10G MAC in future server chipsets. Future might mean this summer / Haswell generation.

I'm very happy to see 10G moving down a price tier.

Beware: the 8/12 port models appear to use Netgear's Windows-based config utility. I have had extremely bad experiences with that program and would strongly recommend against any switch that requires it.

That said, Netgear's getting the chipset from somebody, and others can buy the same, so there will likely be more of these coming out this year from other vendors. Netgear has just pushed everyone else on price.

 

[Lithium381]

The port might operate at 10g, but how fat is the backplane?

 

[Emulex]

non-blocking. that means 8 ports would be 160gbps. You have to remember that a simple l2 switch doesn't have to do much. It's when you get into vlans/l3 routing that packet rates die.

You gotta admit, one big fat 10gb pipe would be far nicer than having to load balance across a ton of gigabit and at 30meters you can use cat6 - especially if the wires are solo (not a big bundle of cat6). At super short distances the switches can degrade the power output to save on heat.

I'm just DELIGHTED that affordable 10G-BASE-T is here , in the channel - right now. Soon we'll have rosewill 10GB PCI-E 3 nic's for $99 and switches for $500 for 12 port and we can do some MAD VDI .

Can put that old mac pro downstairs and run thin clients to everything (XBMC). man life would be GOOD.

This will be huge! So much of what we're restricted to is due to gigabit and cost of 10GB. I'd say it is as huge as the day RJ45-ethernet switches became cheap. Before then 20 computers - hubs - collisions - dark times indeed!

 

[Cable God]

Yep, really nice to see the cost coming down. I've been paying ~$400-$500 per port on average for enterprise-class 10GBT 24 & 48-port switches for top-of-rack use.