[j-nsp] experience using 10G DAC (twinax) cables between EX and multi-vendor

Brent Jones brent at brentrjones.com
Thu May 16 01:24:57 EDT 2013


Care to share any details? Such as what problems you had with twinax, and
how you overcame the cost disparity?



On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Morgan McLean <wrx230 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Go with optics, the twinax cables are garbage in my experience. In the
> process of removing all the twinax from my network in favor of optics.
>
> Morgan
>
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Andy Litzinger <
> Andy.Litzinger at theplatform.com> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone used a 10G DAC/Twinax cable between an EX4550 and other vendor
> > gear?  Did you use Juniper DAC cables or the other vendor cables?
> >
> > In particular I'm planning on linking a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect and
> > also an F5 BigIP 4200v to a VC of EX4550s.
> >
> > would you recommend it or should I fork over the money to use optics?
> >
> > thanks!
> > -andy
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> --
> Thanks,
> Morgan
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