Holy bourbon drinks batman! My new 6450-48P just arrived AND it works with the USB cable I purchased...OMG...it's only taken 3 weeks, but now I'm finally ready to get started!
SSH@core>show media validation
Port Supported Vendor Type
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1/2/1 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE Active Twinax 3m (SFP+)
1/2/2 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE Active Twinax 3m (SFP+)
1/2/3 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE Active Twinax 3m (SFP+)
1/2/4 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE SR 300m (SFP+)
1/2/5 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE SR 300m (SFP+)
1/2/6 No OTHERS Type : 10GE SR 300m (SFP+)
2/2/1 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE Active Twinax 3m (SFP+)
2/2/2 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE Active Twinax 3m (SFP+)
2/2/3 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE Active Twinax 3m (SFP+)
2/2/4 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE SR 300m (SFP+)
2/2/5 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE SR 300m (SFP+)
2/2/6 No FS Type : 10GE SR 300m (SFP+)
3/2/1 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE Active Twinax 3m (SFP+)
3/2/2 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE SR 300m (SFP+)
3/2/3 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE Active Twinax 3m (SFP+)
3/2/4 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE SR 300m (SFP+)
3/2/5 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE Active Twinax 3m (SFP+)
3/2/6 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE SR 300m (SFP+)
3/2/7 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE Active Twinax 3m (SFP+)
3/2/8 No OTHERS Type : 10G Passive Twinax 3m (SFP+)
4/2/1 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE Active Twinax 3m (SFP+)
4/2/2 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE SR 300m (SFP+)
4/2/3 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE Active Twinax 3m (SFP+)
4/2/4 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE SR 300m (SFP+)
4/2/5 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE Active Twinax 3m (SFP+)
4/2/6 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE SR 300m (SFP+)
4/2/7 Yes RUCKUS Type : 10GE Active Twinax 3m (SFP+)
4/2/8 No OTHERS Type : 10G Passive Twinax 3m (SFP+)
Those are QSFP cards, I don't think you can use SFP+ transceivers with them without an adapter of some sort. You probably want to get SFP+ cards instead. Don't take me as gospel though because I'm in your same position.Qty 3: HP 544QSFP MCX354A-FCBT 649281-B21 656089-001 VPI FDR 40GbE Mellanox OEMFirmware
One for each computer (computers are not in the network closet)
Yeah those won't work without a QSFP+ to SFP+ adapter. They're pretty good cards but you'd probably be better off with regular SFP+ cards starting off.Gotcha...you are probably correct...part of the learning curve. Thank you for mentioning it...
Well... that's a really shallow rack even for comms... and it's pushed all the way to the front even...Update: I thought I would take my very well manicured, organized, color coded rack apart, clean some things, and fix a couple cable routing for convenience before I installed the switch. Got it all the apart...and the switch is almost exactly the depth of my rack...can't fit the power cord...sigh, this is the state of affairs until I can get to the store tomorrow...hopefully a right angle cable will get the job done or I'll have to buy a new enclosure...
While on the subject of enclosures...does anyone know of a 4 post, open, short depth, wall mount rack? My google fu is failing me. I'd like to use slide rails....
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SFP+ is just one of the more recent packaging shrinks, 10G was available in XFP prior to SFP+, etc. The telecom transition from 2.5G to 10G WAN PHY happened in the late 90's with line cards that didn't have plug-able transceivers. 10GbE came along at the sunset of of monolithic line cards and really hit stride with XFPs. I'm getting very close to the end of decom for the last of our wet 10G carriers, ~20 years in service, sweating every last drop out of those SLTE assets.Thank you.
I never knew there was an Active DAC vs Passive DAC. Also learned "In 2009, 10Gbps SFP+ transceivers were introduced. " (was not aware that tech is 11 years old.)
To my knowledge, yes, you are right. Have a look at the wonderful documentation made by @fohdeesha linked in the first page for a quick start and licensing information.If I read correctly (only at page 70 of the whole thread), the 10Gb license for 7xxxx is honor based. No need to contact @fohdeesha for perpetual license,
Just need to run some command.
right?
they're beefy routers, they draw at least 200w and are going to be louder than any other switch listed in this thread, but they're good boxes. pair of them is running my transit/colo in new york. would not use at homeIs there anything I need to know about a ICX7750-48C before purchasing? I have not seen a write up yet. Any feedback on the noise level or other gotchas? Thanks
I appreciate your work in the thread and the feed. I had a line on one for $450. My goal is to play with as many features as possible on more 'current' hardware in my lab (with stacking) while having 10GbE cooper with 40 GbE available. The closest the other listed switches com is perhaps the 7450 with 2 ICX7400-4X10GC (for 8 10GbE copper) and 1 ICX7400-1X40GQ but that starts pushing the price up quite a bit. Is there one that you would suggest with the above requirements? Thanks for all you do for us.they're beefy routers, they draw at least 200w and are going to be louder than any other switch listed in this thread, but they're good boxes. pair of them is running my transit/colo in new york. would not use at home