I've been planning on upgrading my home network to 10GbE for a while, with Mikrotik hardware. Nothing will be particularly complicated; I'll need two or three runs of cable that will be 10–20m at most, a couple of very short runs of patch cable, and I think three switches. My assumption is that connections from switch to switch will be via cable into the SFP+ ports, but the actual link to the various machines will be into standard RJ45 jacks.
Now that I'm looking into the details, I'm getting overwhelmed by how complicated this all seems, and I can't find any straightforward explanation of what to do. Instead there are lists of a dozen different incompatible kinds of cable, a dozen different incompatible connectors, and seemingly thousands of transceivers.
I'm not really interested in the complete history of connector types, or a breakdown of the best cables for 20km runs. I just want something like "Use LC duplex connectors for everything, OM3 multimode cable for everything, and one of these few transceivers depending on whether it's connecting fiber or copper." Is there some place to get clear advice about what to do?
Now that I'm looking into the details, I'm getting overwhelmed by how complicated this all seems, and I can't find any straightforward explanation of what to do. Instead there are lists of a dozen different incompatible kinds of cable, a dozen different incompatible connectors, and seemingly thousands of transceivers.
I'm not really interested in the complete history of connector types, or a breakdown of the best cables for 20km runs. I just want something like "Use LC duplex connectors for everything, OM3 multimode cable for everything, and one of these few transceivers depending on whether it's connecting fiber or copper." Is there some place to get clear advice about what to do?