If only there was a cheap (but good) 10GbE switch with a lot of ports too.
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>Cheap 10GbE or 10Gbase-T has arrived with the Realtek RTL8127. Oftentimes, users have had to choose between the Marvell AQC107 and AQC113 families for low-cost 10Gbase-T or several used enterprise NICs from Broadcom and Intel. The data center NICs tend to have more capabilities and offloads, but power consumption is higher, and new pricing can easily be five times higher. Now, with the Realtek RTL8127, we have a 10Gbase-T solution that is already producing under $50 new NICs, which only use a PCIe Gen4 x1 lane and sip power at sub 2W for the chip and sub 3-4W for the board. Cheap 10Gbase-T is now attainable.
If only there was a cheap (but good) 10GbE switch with a lot of ports too.
Archive: https://archive.today/PP1jA
From the post:
>>Cheap 10GbE or 10Gbase-T has arrived with the Realtek RTL8127. Oftentimes, users have had to choose between the Marvell AQC107 and AQC113 families for low-cost 10Gbase-T or several used enterprise NICs from Broadcom and Intel. The data center NICs tend to have more capabilities and offloads, but power consumption is higher, and new pricing can easily be five times higher. Now, with the Realtek RTL8127, we have a 10Gbase-T solution that is already producing under $50 new NICs, which only use a PCIe Gen4 x1 lane and sip power at sub 2W for the chip and sub 3-4W for the board. Cheap 10Gbase-T is now attainable.
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