First Full 2.5G and Multi 5G + 10G uplink Router

[fredey]

As recently announced the IEEE finally finalized the 2.5G and 5G spec for ethernet and thusly the first complete products have come out 

http://www.netgear.com/business/products/switches/managed/m4200.aspx?cid=wmt_netgear_organic

The Netgear M4200-10MG-Poe-Plus is a 8+2 port switch with all ports capable of 2.5G at least 2 of the eight 5G and the final 2 10G uplink ports 

 

 

Marketed as a 802.11ac wave 2 deployment switch it is capable of supporting the speeds required to fully utilize the wireless standard.

Furthermore because of it's current price 1200$+ it is likely too expensive for anything else.

 

 

What do you guys think as previously mentioned in the IEEE thread: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/667790-ieee-formalizes-25-and-5gbps-ethernet-standard/

This tech would be awesome for home use do to the logical cost benefit over 10G companies like Asus and Asrock have put 10G on motherboards put with exorbitant prices 2.5G seems like a much nicer upgrade path.

What I would like to know is which cabling provides with speed at which length as to see how good legacy support is.

 

 

 

[zMeul]

"home use" at 1200$ !? ..  the fuk?! 

[fredey]

Just now, zMeul said:

"home use" at 1200$ !? ..  the fuk?! 

Well for now they are this expensive, new tech and all, what I meant this would be better than 10G on motherboards in say 1 to 2 years

[zMeul]

8 minutes ago, fredey said:

Well for now they are this expensive, new tech and all, what I meant this would be better than 10G on motherboards in say 1 to 2 years

not going to happen in 1-2y, like 802.11ac wave 2 didn't happened in the last one + year(s)

 

100-200$ for a home WiFi router, I can understand

couple of hundred $ for SOHO, I can understand

but, 1000$+ is small business territory ... for a switch

 

 most people at home don't need more than 1gbps, and consider that the vast majority of the home contracts aren't even close to 1gbps

 

and ps, @fredey: that is a managed switch, not a router

[fredey]

Just now, zMeul said:

not going to happen in 1-2y, like 802.11ac wave 2 didn't happened in the last one + year(s)

 

100-200$ for a home WiFi router, I can understand

couple of hundred $ for SOHO, I can understand

but, 1000$+ is small business territory

Well that is true but I can hope it will be better. As far as I can tell this all comes down to the silicon manufactures if intel for example makes a single port 2.5G chip like there 1G chips at a reasonable price then it will be put into motherboards and then silicon for a say 8 port 2.5G router would need to be cheap enough for the whole thing to work

[The Benjamins]

I was thinking of getting the S3300-28X is has 24 1Gbe, 2 10Gbe, 2 10Gb SFP+ it is priced less then any other copper 10Gb switch I can find. It seems to be a more consumer oriented switch.

 

My server has 2 10Gbe ports on it, and I plan on getting a 10Gb card for my machine.

 

https://www.netgear.com/business/products/switches/smart/S3300-28X.aspx?cid=wmt_netgear_organic

[Lurick]

For a consumer oriented switch and/or low priced switch?

Yah that might be the "first" but for the first switch to use it, Cisco and HP/Aruba beat you to it by about a year or so

 

The WS-C3850-24XU-L comes to mind and has been on the market since last year.

 

This is still nice to see though, since the only other comparable switch I know of at that price range has 2 multi-gigabit ports.

[NumLock21]

i can tell some here will get that, for their complex home network setups.

[Doobeedoo]

Fiber infrastructure needs to start expanding way faster... my phone haves like 10 times faster internet speed than my home.

But yeah, nice thing with lovely price heh.

[fredey]

Im just happy to finally see routers coming out with a complete standard the hope being more products use it not just expensive switches and expensive ap's