25Gb Core Switch recommendation

[ectoplasmosis]

I'm in the market for a top-of-rack core switch, with minimum 24x 25Gb SFP28 ports and 4x QSFP28 uplinks. For a simple project that requires simple L3 such as inter-VLAN routing of multicast packets. Must support IGMP Snooping V3.

Been looking at new and used FS.com, Edge-Core, Mellanox, Dell etc, but would appreciate any hidden gems suggestions.

Budget definitely doesn't stretch to new Cisco with associated licensing...

Many thanks in advance!

 

[jpmomo]

may not work for your project but I bought an arista 7060cx awhile ago for around $1K. I was able to connect several 25GE servers via a 4x25 to 1 100G DAC cable. It also worked with fiber breakouts.

 

[i386]

25GBE switches are pretty expensive, the closes you can get are 100GBE switches with breakout cables.
But even the used 100GBE switches are at 500%+ of pre covid prices... (not counting the white box switches or switches with atom cpus with the AVR54 bug that go for 1k or less on ebay)

 

[jpmomo]

the price of the aristas went through the roof. I found this dell 25 and 100G switch on the bay that wasn't too bad:

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[ectoplasmosis]

Thanks, ended up with a few Edgecore AS7326 units running PicaOS in the end.

 

[VMman]

I’ve been following 10gb 48P switches for the past few months and you could find many arista examples or even Cisco for sub $1k before but now the prices are crazy.