It looks like 24*1Gb + 2*10Gb switches will be showing up soon:
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=43109
http://www.sandburst.com/Releases/AcctonPartners.pdf
Sandburst and Accton are offering a white-box/OEM 24 port switch with two 10Gb uplinks...
"The resulting system could sell for around $20,000, Sandburst officials say."
Certainly not as cheap as a 2950 with two Gb ports, but this is the start of an entirely new generation of edge switches. Does anyone want to hazard a guess as how long it will be before 24+10Gb switches are selling for $1,500?
3 years?
Yes, Q1-Q2 2004 you'll see this from quite a lot of vendors I predict.
If you don't need a lot of features (L2 and L3 switching only) I bet
you'll see them for less than $10k during 2004, hopefully including
optics in that price. That's the price point where 10GE really starts to
take off.
Considering the advances in highspeed DSL in the last/first mile, if we
want to take advantage of that we need 10GE in the distribution layer and
we need 40GE or 100GE in the core, and this is not so far off.
I am actually worried about the price point of highspeed datacom in the
next few years, after the inflated marget in 2001 where everybody built,
prices have dropped at the customer level but a lot of the gear is still
the same price. OC192 cards for the GSR is still the same price as in
2001, but you might get more features. Has the OC48 card dropped in price
at all?
Is the core really keeping up? We have cheap highspeed metro but can we do
the same in the long haul?
It looks like 24*1Gb + 2*10Gb switches will be showing up soon:
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=43109
http://www.sandburst.com/Releases/AcctonPartners.pdf
Sandburst and Accton are offering a white-box/OEM 24 port switch with two
10Gb uplinks...
"The resulting system could sell for around $20,000, Sandburst officials say."
Certainly not as cheap as a 2950 with two Gb ports, but this is the start
of an entirely new generation of edge switches. Does anyone want to hazard
a guess as how long it will be before 24+10Gb switches are selling for $1,500?
3 years?
accton sells 24port 1000t managed switches for around $2200. If they can
reduce the cost by half every year the 10GB model will cost as much as the
1gb model does now in about three years... the real question for me is
what are 850nm and 1310/1550nm xenpaks going to cost in three years. we
pays around $350 for sfp lx gbics and around $150 for sx, but the effects
of commodization haven't quite set in on xenpacks yet,
Certainly we'll never see them at that level from "Company C". I don't
think they have ever sold anything of substance for $1500. Heck, they
still list the 2511 at around $3700 if you want 16/16 memory in it.
linksys 4 port wireless ap, router, printer server, and 10gbe switch? 
joelja
Eric Kuhnke wrote:
It looks like 24*1Gb + 2*10Gb switches will be showing up soon:
Certainly not as cheap as a 2950 with two Gb ports, but this is the start of an entirely new generation of edge switches. Does anyone want to hazard a guess as how long it will be before 24+10Gb switches are selling for $1,500?
Well, for now we have:
WS-C2970G-24TS-E Catalyst 2970 24 10/100/1000T + 4 SFP, Enhanced Image currently listed at USD 5,495.00.
That's 24Gb + *4* Gb uplinks. Not quite 10Gb, but close. The 3750Gs are layer 3 for a few grand more.
Jeff
Certainly we'll never see them at that level from "Company C". I don't
think they have ever sold anything of substance for $1500. Heck, they
still list the 2511 at around $3700 if you want 16/16 memory in it.
Never say "never"...
Here's a brand new WS-C2950 for $1108. Why would the new 24*Gb + 10Gb uplink switches not be similarly priced in 3 or 4 years? It's possible the manufacturing of XENPAK optics is an order of magnitude more difficult... but I think there will be adequate competition in the marketplace soon enough.
http://www.lanblvd.com/productpage.cfm?prodid=796
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