I paid $200 for mine. Not cost-effective if you have more than a couple 10GbE-capable devices, but great for hooking up a fast NAS to a couple primary workstations and leaving the rest of the network 1GbE.
> ... providing three 10GbE SFP+ ports (with one 10GbE SFP+/RJ45 combo port) and eight Gigabit ports
Anyway, what you're looking for is something more like:
I already ordered a used Brocade/Ruckus ICX for $200 though. They have 12/24/48 RJ45 port models with an additional 2-8 SFP+ or higher and come in PoE versions.
These are prohibitively expensive new but can be found at significant discount (10-20% of retail price) on e.g. eBay. This goes for Cisco as well, though I haven't researched looked into that. When buying enterprise gear, many brands (these two included) require particular licenses to unlock capabilities on the switch, so one should verify they have/get the appropriate license as well.
Netgear's SOHO/Enterprise range, Mikrotik and Ubiquiti are also very popular.
You can get super-slim ethernet cables, but they have really fine wiring and don't go very far. But with fiber you can go vast distances with no problem. You can even get GBICs that will take you 10km.
I've been considering it for... well, ok, no reason.
I just happen to have two openwrt routers that have an SFP port (mikrotik).
They've come out with some new ones that are all SFP port models, for not much money though the 10gbe ones are a bit more.
mikrotik 1x gbe ethernet, 4x SFP 10gbe, $138
https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128?dataflt%5B...
I’m linking two switches together with this fiber, and the rest is copper ethernet cables in these switches and other switches :)
Behind each switch are 4+ devices, so individual network cards won’t help here.
A Sonos speaker is also connected to the network, but that’s obviously neither important nor significant in terms of traffic.
In this article, everything is 1 Gbit/s, including the fiber. I’ll talk more about the 10 Gbit/s aspect in the next article.