On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 02:31:09PM -0800, nate wrote: > > 10GbE is really cheap these days(cheaper than 1GbE in some cases > on a per Gb basis) if you need faster performance, and simple > to configure, I wrote a blog on this a couple of months ago: > > http://www.techopsguys.com/2009/11/17/affordable-10gbe-has-arrived/ > This reminded me of something. I remember reading some website (possibly Cisco's) earlier, and they mentioned 10 GBASE-T had much higher latency than other 10 Gbit options. Have you paid attention to this? How big is the difference nowadays? Or I wonder if it was just on some specific product.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Gigabit_Ethernet says: "10GBASE-T has higher latency and consumes more power than other 10 gigabit Ethernet physical layers. In 2008 10GBASE-T silicon is now available from several manufacturers with claimed power dissipation of 6W and a latency approaching 1 microsecond" 1 microsecond doesn't sound bad.. :) -- Pasi