[c-nsp] Cheap 10G between 7600 and Procurve 5406zl

[Benny Amorsen]

These days you can get cheap twinax 10G cables with SFP+ at the ends to
connect two Cisco switches or two Procurves. Short distance only of
course, but very cheap.

I would like to connect a Procurve 5406zl which has a SFP+ port to one
of the 10Gbps ports on a Cisco 7600 RSP720-3CXL-10GE.

Twinax ends in SFP+, the ports on the RSP720 are X2. Are
there any adapters from X2 to SFP+?

Also, twinax SFP+ are manufacturer-specific. Is it possible to get a
twinax-cable with a Cisco-coded SFP+ at one end and a Procurve-coded
SFP+ at the other?

If a twinax-based solution isn't possible, what is the cheapest
solution?


/Benny