> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:51:00 -0800 > From: Dave Temkin <dav...@gmail.com> > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:26:16 +0900 > >> From: Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> > >> > >> > >>> arista 7120t-4s... > >>> > >> hot box. but you are giving away the secret sauce! > >> > > > > Hot box for the datacenter, but small buffers make it unsuited for > > long distances. In the right place, this box can't be beaten in the > > price/performance realm. > > > > > Can you point to another 1U box that has more than 16MB per-port buffer?
I cannot. It's just that this is not enough buffer for longer distances with multiple well loaded ports. As I keep saying, this is the best price/performance box I have seen. I am not criticizing it, just pointing out that it may not be the solution to all purposes. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
