On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:07:16PM -0600, Yang Yu wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Brandon Butterworth > <bran...@rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote: > > > With 10G it's been the opposite, nobody was using copper so SFP+ is > > cheap. Only recently has copper 10G started to become common, a bit too > > late to be worth bothering with now and as there are no copper SFP+ > > Having new servers switch to copper instead of sfp is a nuisance > > SFP+ Copper Twinax is another option for 10G to save on the transceivers
Not really. You can get 10G optics for sub-$10 and patch cords for cheap too, so why spend >$50 on DAC cables when you can go fiber and save space and money? Walking into a colo and seeing orange or aqua cables always makes me sad as people overpaid and created themselves a future problem. - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from ja...@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.