[c-nsp] Nexus 5K FCoE to FC breakout

Brad Hedlund (brhedlun) brhedlun at cisco.com
Fri Apr 17 09:01:39 EDT 2009


Not sure about Infiniband, but costs for 10GE server access have come  
down to ~$800/port.  Not bad considering 1GE is ~$300/port (on a good  
switch).

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Brad Hedlund, CCIE 5530
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Consulting System Engineer
Data Center
(773) 695-8226

On Apr 17, 2009, at 4:51 AM, "Chris Hills" <chaz at chaz6.com> wrote:

> On 17/04/09 04:59, Justin C Darby wrote:
>> Step 10.5: Curse about how much 10GbE costs, then remember how much  
>> Fiber
>> Channel costs.
>
> Yet still you do not hear of much use of Infiniband. I believe at  
> the 2X rate (i.e. 10Gbs) it is cheaper than 10GbE. Did you consider  
> using it when embarking upon your approach?
>
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