10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) Networking - NICs, Switches, etc.

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PigLover

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That's great news. Intel is finally shipping parts based on the new low power chipsets.

The logjam for adoption of 10Gbe is still the cost of the switch. The parts to bring switch costs down and break this open are in the pipeline. You should see 8 port 10Gbe-T switches sub $2,000 by year end prices will fall rapidly from there.
 

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Just as a note, the Xeon E5-2600 generation platforms I have seen are basically dominated by the i350 generation parts for GigE. This is a great step forward and will probably be the next must-have gigabit controller (not 10GbE) after the now ubiquitous 82574L.
 

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Patrick, could you please give a little more detail to qualify your statement? Could you tell more about the "i350 generation parts", why it's a great step forward, why it will probably be the "next must-have gigabit controller" and why it isn't going to be the X540 spoken of in the article? Honestly I know squat about this stuff and am curious why a new gigabit controller would be great when it looks like we're going to have decent 10 gig controllers coming with motherboards.
 

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Patrick, could you please give a little more detail to qualify your statement? Could you tell more about the "i350 generation parts", why it's a great step forward, why it will probably be the "next must-have gigabit controller" and why it isn't going to be the X540 spoken of in the article? Honestly I know squat about this stuff and am curious why a new gigabit controller would be great when it looks like we're going to have decent 10 gig controllers coming with motherboards.
Have a look here at SuperMicro's new LGA2011 based server Mobo's with i350 GbE
I doubt this will even come close to 10GbE solutions but these new chipsets are more power friendly
 

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Yes its rather oddball looking Mobo :)

The x540 10GbE is only just been released where as the i350 has been out for a few months.
I dare say we should see xx-ATX versions of this in the future

Tyan are also about to release their new LGA2011 Mobo's, the webiste has the links but no pages yet.
Lets see what they bring us

EDIT, TYAN has just released their specs for LGA2011 boards over here
 
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TYAN S7056 (S7056WGM3NR-2T) and S7055GM3NR-2T-B[BTO]

EATX SSI -EEB board, much more like it

Best of both words :)
Really odd layout and PCIe configuration on those boards. Requires the use of a proprietary riser to access the PCIe. Nice set of specs but pretty much requires a Tyan proprietary chassis if you intend to use any PCIe based expansion.

They are getting there...I'd like to see something like the SM X9DAi but replace the i350 with an x540-ta2.
 

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The S7055 boards are more standard in their layout with PCIe slots

Currently until Supermicro comes out with something similar or better the S7055GM3NR-2T-B is on my wish list.
 

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You should see 8 port 10Gbe-T switches sub $2,000 by year end prices will fall rapidly from there.
When somebody sees an 8 port 10GbE switch w/RJ45 for around $2000 please post here ASAP. I'm currently using a computer with several NICs instead of a switch and I'll buy a proper switch when I see one for that price.
 

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48port, 10GBe, Managed, RJ45 $2500 or $3000 buy now - HP ProCurve (J9452A)
The ebay listing is a bit misleading (shocking...).

48 1Gbe (not 10gig but 1gig) RG45 ports. 4 SFP+ 10Gbe uplink ports. No 10Gbase-T at all to use with the newer NICs - only SFP+. Not exactly the one people are looking for yet...but for somebody with just one or two servers needing 10Gbe could be interesting.
 
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mobilenvidia

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So it is, I even missed that by doing some extra googling.

In that case the price is not so good, you can get multi 1GbE port+ 4x 10GbE port switches for quite a bit less but still over $1000
 

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The Gigabyte GA-7PESH2 might be of interest.
Not a bad Mobo, the expansion slot lack of 8x PCIe ports a little on the downside though my main gripe.

Not out yet but should be soon

Specification

Dimension
EATX, 330W x 305H (mm)

CPU
Dual LGA2011 Socket
Supports Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 product family processors

Chipset
Intel® BD82C602 PCH

Memory
16 DIMM slots support Registered or ECC Unbuffered
Quad channel up to 128GB DDR3 1066/1333/1600 MHz

LAN
Dual 10G Base-T Ethernet LAN ports (Intel®X540-AT2)

Video
Integrated in Aspeed 2300

SAS
3 x Mini SAS ports (8 x SAS 6Gbs via LSI SAS2008 + 4 SATA II 3Gbs)
LSI IR RAID 0/1/1E/10

SATA
2 x SATA III 6Gb/s ports
RAID Function Intel SW RAID 0/1/5/10

Expansion Slots
1 x PCIe x16 (@Gen3 x16 bus) slot
1 x PCIe x16 (@Gen3 x8 bus) slot
2 x PCIe x8 (@Gen3 x4 bus) slots
1 x PCIe x4 (@Gen2 x1 bus) slot

Back Panel Connectors
4 x USB ports
1 x VGA ports
1 x COM ports
3 x RJ45

Server Management
IPMI 2.0 (Opt: i-KVM)
 

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The Gigabyte GA-7PESH2 might be of interest.
Not a bad Mobo, the expansion slot lack of 8x PCIe ports a little on the downside though my main gripe.

Not out yet but should be soon
Hard to get in the US. Usually 10Gb is an option that variations of boards have. I might send them a note if they bring boards here.
 

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Well I don't think the mobo is officially out yet ?
It does have 'Coming soon' on the main page.

No reason why it won't come to the US as it was mentioned on the US Gigabyte news page