Asus finally ships the xg-u2008: $250 for 2x 10gbase-t + 8 1g

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Nick Nick

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ASUS XG-U2008 10GBase-T Network Switch Released: 2x10G + 8x1G for $249 (anandtech).

$250 is a low price for 10gig.

This is an unmanaged switch, but is lower power (18w power adapter). No word on nbase-t (2.5g and 5gps) so assume it doesn't have it.

If I ever but the "tinkertry superserver" with 10gbase-t on the motherboard (SYS-5028D-TN4T) with the 10gbase-t ports, you could inexpensively connect it to your home system!

This is almost what the market wants - it's an incredibly inexpensive price for a switch with 10gig. If it had one or two sfp+ ports, and/or nbase-t, everyone would buy one :) In stock at newegg. Low power, who knows if it has a fan, but probably not at that power usage.

-Nick
 

KioskAdmin

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here's a list of why you'd buy one of these asus switches
a) you are an asus fanboi
b) you don't know any better
c) ... that's it.
 

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Are there even asus fanoys? I never heard of one. What if you have a 10gbase-t device and want a switch for inside your office and don't want to pay triple for something like the netgear xs708t 10gbase-t, a quiet switch? I just want a quiet cheapish switch with both sfp+ and 10gbase-t. Mikrotek please make one.

When will the whole idea of matching sfp+ and compatability lists go away? (like this thread Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch ES-16-XG SFP+ Compatibility Thread). Now you can diss me for pointing out this. :)
 

KioskAdmin

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10gbase-t still uses too much power. my Mikrotiks take every sfp+ I've tried in them so far. That thread is the only reason I don't have a ubiquiti. I just wish with the mikrotiks they'd have better processors. The real answer is ditching base-t above 1gbe.

I'm with you though. Used 40gbe is not that much more than 10gbase-t if it's going to be loud anyway.
 

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AFAIK their home routers are fairly well regarded and often come out top in terms of wifi bandwidth tests
 

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Not bad for that price. Sure, dlink dxs-1100/1200-10ts or netgear xs708 are better, but cost 3x more...
 

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for dlink the closest one would be the 1510-20 which is managed and has 2 SFP+ ports, it comes in around 300$ and has 16 gig ports, 2 sfp port and 2 sfp+ ports
 

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For $250 maybe not bad but here's my counter point. 10gbase-t is expensive to add NICs for and I'm currently sizing for 10Gb on anything that needs performance and 1Gb for thing that don't. There aren't even enough 1Gb ports to fully utilize the 10Gb port.

I won't buy one of these because the incremental price decrease is less than I'd get with the 24 port version but $197 with Prime ($2 more on newegg) https://www.amazon.com/MikroTik-CRS210-8G-2S-Cloud-Router-Switch/dp/B00RSNN17G/

That's essentially a SFP+ version with 100x better features and for <80% the price.

So for $250 the only reason I see to get this is if you have no use for more 10Gb ports (Ubiquiti 16 port). The clients will be lower power too and the $53 price difference is enough to get a SFP+ NIC or two.
 

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For 2x10GbE (assuming you've already got two 10Gb ethernet ports to plug into it), its a decent enough option for most home or SOHO networks with a NAS on them (whether the bandwidth is needed or warranted of course is another option), but without any management features it's a bit of a lame duck IMHO. Certainly it would look pretty for the five minutes it would take to go from inside the box to under the computer desk.

2x10GbE and 8x2.5/5GbE would have a very interesting proposition and I'd have considered that as a "dumb switch to uplink to a managed switch" but as other have pointed out there's plenty else out there more capable in this price bracket.
 
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Nice. Just started collecting some 10Gb gear in the past couple weeks to get on board with this in my home network. Have been eyeballing the ubiquiti ES‑16‑XG but I haven't yet been able to talk myself into the cost of it. Nice to see other options coming out. Hopefully prices will drop so I can actually hook up the cards/system I have with 10Gb :)
 

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The only selling point I could see to getting one of these is using one as an access switch on like an office desk where you don't necessarily want to put a full 19" rack width switch.