[tech] New UWA network interface options

[James Andrewartha]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, David Adam wrote:

> The problem with the first option, which I discovered with a trill of gay 
> laughter after having spent many hours trying to get it working, is that 
> you can't connected any 100 megabit devices to a copper GBIC. However, I'm 
> not convinced that our uplink copper cable will support gigabit traffic. 

At $470, I don't think the cost of putting in a new uplink is prohibitive. 
I'll put in $50.

Incidentally, madako will need to be upgraded/replaced as its uplink is 
only 100Mbit at the moment.

> The problem with the second option is that it takes what is currently our 
> LAN switch out of commission and wastes 44 perfectly good copper ports. 
> However, with the new giant Cisco 4507R installed in the rack, we might be 
> migrating off coconut (same model as palm) sometime soon anyway, which 
> would negate this.

My work has recently deprecated four Enterasys C2G124-48 switches, which 
have 48 port 10/100/1000baseTX ports with four shared SFP slots which 
could be used as LAN switches.


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