[SOLVED] Recommendation for a 10g switch for gaming cafe

[infever]

Hi, I would like to ask for some recommendation of a 10 gig switch best for gaming cafe. Prefer CISCO

 

[bill001g]

What do you mean by a 10 gig switch. You want all the ports to be 10g ? How many 10g devices do you have that actually have 10g interfaces.

You have to be somewhat careful of even cisco switch. They sell 2 types of devices. Those for enterprise customers and those for the small business customer. The enterprise ones have more features and sometimes better performance. The small business ones are no better than say linksys or netgear or many other brands, the cisco ones just cost more.

The key to any switch is what they call backplane or switch fabric speed. This is the total amount of traffic the device can pass. Almost every gigabit switch you find on the market has enough backplane speed to run all ports at 1gbit up and 1gbit down all at the same time. So a 24 port switch needs at least 48g backplane.

A switch with say 24 10G ports would need 480g backplane which is not as common. This tends to be where you see the difference between a expensive switch and cheap one.

These type of switch are really only used in high end data centers. You have to have the servers to connect to them that can actually use this much bandwidth. I can't see how a gaming cafe would need that much bandwidth unless you have 1000 machines and then you are talking switches that cost more than a nice car.

 

[SamirD]

Do you need managed or unmanaged? sfp+ or rj45? And why the preference for Cisco? There's a lot of others in the field and cisco is not the leader.