Hi All
After the documented issues on here that I had with my Quad Port 1Gbe cards I have thought "Why don't I just bite the bullet and go 10Gbe"
With this is mind I have been chatting with @nry ,another forum member ,who has a Dell PowerConnect 8024F switch and is very happy with it.
If you haven't seen my other thread, I recently recabled my house with CAT6 cable so would be nice if I could run the majority of it over 10G-Base-T connections. However, I do also have 3 x Brocade BR-1020 cards and Active Twinax cables for them. So I am guessing they could go into the normal fibre ports on some switches.
Ideally I would want a switch that could make use of my existing CAT6 cabling but also use the Brocade cards that would live in the servers, in the network cabinet, with the switch.
The fibre side of stuff to me is all very new indeed so please give me the "pop up book" version.
So open to suggestions please?
After the documented issues on here that I had with my Quad Port 1Gbe cards I have thought "Why don't I just bite the bullet and go 10Gbe"
With this is mind I have been chatting with @nry ,another forum member ,who has a Dell PowerConnect 8024F switch and is very happy with it.
If you haven't seen my other thread, I recently recabled my house with CAT6 cable so would be nice if I could run the majority of it over 10G-Base-T connections. However, I do also have 3 x Brocade BR-1020 cards and Active Twinax cables for them. So I am guessing they could go into the normal fibre ports on some switches.
Ideally I would want a switch that could make use of my existing CAT6 cabling but also use the Brocade cards that would live in the servers, in the network cabinet, with the switch.
The fibre side of stuff to me is all very new indeed so please give me the "pop up book" version.
So open to suggestions please?