Well, guys, this lil switch has served me well for a while, but I'm in a quandary at this point.
This is the Brocade ICX 6610-48-E (non POE). It has eight 1g/10g SFP+ ports (and they are all licensed for 10g) and 48 1G RJ45 ports. It also has four 40g QSFP+ ports on the back, but these are supposedly only for stacking, and I haven't used them until now, nor do I foresee using them. The switch also has the "Premium" license for Layer 3, which allows it to do all the fancy stuff, including static routes and what not.
The problem is that I'm running out of the 10g ports. I need to connect more stuff to it than there are ports. Up until now, this was THE perfect switch for my home/lab, as it had enough 10G and 1G ports for everything in one box, that's not too loud or too power inefficient. I'm actually not even using that many RJ45s on it, I just need more 10G ports.
What would you do?
- Get a different "core" switch and hang this one off of that,
- get a different "edge" switch that has more 10g ports and hang it off of this one,
- sell this one, get a different switch altogether which will satisfy the growing needs?
This is the Brocade ICX 6610-48-E (non POE). It has eight 1g/10g SFP+ ports (and they are all licensed for 10g) and 48 1G RJ45 ports. It also has four 40g QSFP+ ports on the back, but these are supposedly only for stacking, and I haven't used them until now, nor do I foresee using them. The switch also has the "Premium" license for Layer 3, which allows it to do all the fancy stuff, including static routes and what not.
The problem is that I'm running out of the 10g ports. I need to connect more stuff to it than there are ports. Up until now, this was THE perfect switch for my home/lab, as it had enough 10G and 1G ports for everything in one box, that's not too loud or too power inefficient. I'm actually not even using that many RJ45s on it, I just need more 10G ports.
What would you do?
- Get a different "core" switch and hang this one off of that,
- get a different "edge" switch that has more 10g ports and hang it off of this one,
- sell this one, get a different switch altogether which will satisfy the growing needs?