On Monday, January 06, 2014 08:24:22 PM Nick Hilliard wrote: > except qos (which needs switch port buffer space). There > are no cheap 10G boxes on the market at the moment which > have reasonable numbers of 10G ports and reasonable > sized. Plenty which have 2-4 10G ports with reasonable > buffers and lots more which have plenty of 10G ports > with hardly any buffer space.
FIB space requirements in a switch are also going to limit your options. Also, many "non-service provider" switches don't do egress policing (they might do shaping, but then if the buffers are small...). Mark.
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