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VinceFerr
Feb 16, 2018Aspirant
switch con porte sfp+ da 10Gb
Stavo guardando alcuni switch 1Gb con 2/4 porte SFP+ da 10Gb. Scrivono tutti porte da uplink/stacking, cioè dovrebbero servire per collegare altri switch e usare una banda fino a 20-40Gb tra i vari ...
- Feb 17, 2018
Reason for my curiosity question was hat I was not aware of such a Netgear switch model with GbE plus four SFP+. On the GS728TX (and all four S3300 models), of the four dedicated 10 GbE ports are two 10GBASE-T, and two are SFP+:
Said that, all the 10 GbE ports are generic ports, available for any purpose at any speed (except of the new 2.5G and 5G MultiGig).
What I don't know is if Netgear does enforce the usage of Netgear SFP+ modules with a Netgear ID on this model line.
schumaku
Feb 16, 2018Guru - Experienced User
Non preoccuparti, puoi italiano, inglese, tedesco, francese ... but easier to commmunicate in English here.
VinceFerrwrote:My question was if I have 4 sfp+ 10Gb ports on a 1Gb switch, can I use these ports to directly connect 4 pc with 4 10Gb sfp+ boards and sfp+DAC cables? Do they communicate among them at 10Gb or with other machines in the switch at 1Gb?
In general yes, there is non-blocking almost full wire switching speed on all 10G and 1G ports, any to any.
Not sure what Netgear switch model you have in mind.
VinceFerr
Feb 17, 2018Aspirant
For example the S3300
http://www.netgear.it/business/products/switches/smart/S3300-28X.aspx#tab-specifichetecniche
It has 24 normal port at 1Gb and 4 sfp+ 10Gb ports for uplink/stacking.
They only speak of "uplink/stacking", so instead you say you could set VLAN and other rules also on these 4 sfp+ ports? And communicate with all the other ports like if they were normal access port, even L2+ routing and so on?
- schumakuFeb 17, 2018Guru - Experienced User
Reason for my curiosity question was hat I was not aware of such a Netgear switch model with GbE plus four SFP+. On the GS728TX (and all four S3300 models), of the four dedicated 10 GbE ports are two 10GBASE-T, and two are SFP+:
Said that, all the 10 GbE ports are generic ports, available for any purpose at any speed (except of the new 2.5G and 5G MultiGig).
What I don't know is if Netgear does enforce the usage of Netgear SFP+ modules with a Netgear ID on this model line.- VinceFerrFeb 17, 2018Aspirant
Ok, so those 4 sfp+ are considered like normal ports (that can be used ALSO to uplink/stack), good.
So you think it could not work using a generic sfp+DAC cable? Maybe that ID thing could be a problem only with optical sfp+ modules?
- schumakuFeb 18, 2018Guru - Experienced User
VinceFerrwrote:Ok, so those 4 sfp+ are considered like normal ports (that can be used ALSO to uplink/stack), good.
As per the specifications I see there are just two SFP+ plus two 10GBASE-T ports - so not sure why you continue to talk of four SFP+ ports. Just want to avoid you are going to order something wrong 8-)
VinceFerr wrote:
So you think it could not work using a generic sfp+DAC cable? Maybe that ID thing could be a problem only with optical sfp+ modules?
No experience with non-Netgear modules/DAC on this model line on my side.
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