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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: 24-port Gigabit + two 10Gb uplinks
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > It looks like 24*1Gb + 2*10Gb switches will be showing up soon: 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? -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
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