[c-nsp] 10/100/1000 speeds in GE SFP ports

[Dan Armstrong]

I second that.

I would give my right arm for a high density, inexpensive switch and/or 
blade & matching set of copper & fibre SFPs that did 10/100/1000.

10 Megabit is still pretty fast for a downlink from ISP->Customer.  
Switch vendors are so hell-bent on 10G, 40G+ stuff, they've forgotten 
about the simple ergonomic conveniences of the still massively used 
lower speed interfaces.




Saku Ytti wrote:
> On (2008-09-25 13:43 +0200), Johannes Resch wrote:
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>> In ES20, SFP-GE-T work in 10/100/1000 modes (caution: any GLC-* type SFPs
>> are not supported with ES20 at all). Not sure about the state of support
>> for auto-negotiation though, I personally have only used it with hardcoded
>> speeds.
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> What a sad state of affair. ES20 port price isn't very comparable
> to 3750 port price when you just need that 10/100 option.
>
> On a side note I noticed recently that brand spanking new cat4 E
> 10/100/1000 copper cards don't do auto MDI/X.
> I'm pretty sure that MDI/X or multirate have no significant 
> cost addition, MDI/X doesn't even have business driver not
> to include it. I guess multirate has business driver, force customers
> to buy more.
>
> I'm really tempted to finance shop that'll produce RJ45 PoE <-> SFP
> transceivers. So that you'd buy transceiver that plugs to PoE port
> and offers SFP port. You'd get multirate and tons of SFP ports
> without the insane mark-up and poor density that vendors offer for
> no valid reason other than 'because we can'.
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