Woah these are around $5k.
Not sure that's a fit for home network enthusiasts, and for business, just pay the bucks to be able to pass the buck - ie get a packaged solution not homebrew.
Not sure that's a fit for home network enthusiasts, and for business, just pay the bucks to be able to pass the buck - ie get a packaged solution not homebrew.
For what it's worth I did not pay 5k USD for it, that is significantly overpriced for it on the 2nd hand market.
> for business, just pay the bucks to be able to pass the buck - ie get a packaged solution not homebrew
There is a significant cost difference here,
The overall point of the post is that the "packaged solution" is not viable when most switch vendors have what I can describe as "crap" software quality and/or support.
So if you are in the land of simple L2 switching and L3 routing, this switch is amazing because you can escape the crap vendor software.
If you're really into homelab stuff or trying to run a small business where networking is critical, they're quite a good deal.
The "packaged solutions" as a new product from a known vendor with a support contract (because honestly if you're not buying the support contract you're going to spend a LOT of time messing with the switch no matter what vintage it is) are at least 10x the price, which very well could be much too much for a home user or small business.
I'd love to have managed 2.5Gb switches with 10Gb uplinks in my house using a custom linux OS that I can use standard config management tools with...
100%, this has been the most frustrating thing about following the various "open" switching worlds. There's a massive gap in the middle between the sorts of 4-8 port switches that end up in OpenWRT-compatible routers and this sort of enterprise switch that's barely accessible to the "homelab" class user.
I would absolutely love to have some open switching in the "Ubiquiti" class, desktop and 1U rackmount devices with gigabit through 10G as their primary interfaces. I'm personally in the VoIP world and if I could install Asterisk directly on a 48 port PoE switch I'd be deploying them by the dozens.
Me too. I have been eyeballing "SparX-5" based switches, which do run Linux ("SMBStaX"), but you'd need something like million bucks to get anywhere :( Could be candidate for a Kickstarter style project maybe...
[0] https://conclusive.tech/products/rchd-sparx-networking-som/
Have you found any for sale other than the Microchip dev board?
I stumbled across this recently: https://www.servethehome.com/insane-48-port-2-5gbe-2x-25gbe-... but I haven't been able to find where you can buy one these days.
Sadly my PCB design skills are not quite up to dense BGA escape + 25gig lanes...
Check out DENT NOS: https://dent.dev/ There's a Delta 32x1G (PoE+) + 16x2.5G (PoE++) + 6x25G SFP28 switch that can run DENT.