On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Doug McIntyre <merlyn@iphouse.net> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 08:21:54AM -0500, Mike Horwath wrote:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 08:06:45AM -0500, Jason Hanke wrote:
There aren't enough ports on the 4550 to swap it in we would need two. We are due for a fabric upgrade.
Correct, while one could be brought in with additional cards in both, that would barely cover us with zero future growth without adding in a 2nd one. The U of MN expressed interest in a 40Gbps connection, and doing just one switch would knock that out of contention, (or we keep the EX4500 and run it knowing that it is EOL, and software will probably stop being available within 14 months).
Don't worry about a 40G for us I'm looking past that now to 100G. I think the priority is to stabilize what we have and add a 100G/50G/40G/25G capability soon next two or three months. Thanks. -- =============================================== David Farmer Email:farmer@umn.edu Networking & Telecommunication Services Office of Information Technology University of Minnesota 2218 University Ave SE Phone: 612-626-0815 Minneapolis, MN 55414-3029 Cell: 612-812-9952 ===============================================