10Gb ethernet cards
That’s right, 10Gb – Ten Gigabit.
I need the ability to capture data from 10Gig links in my production network. Copper cards are actually pretty cheap, running a mere $600-800 USD.
My links are all fiber, and I like it that way. You’ll need a dual port card to use a fiber tap, but most of my hardware supports port mirroring – so I can get away with one.
For the money, Intel’s single port sfp+ card is a pretty good deal. It comes with a SR sfp+ module (sfp+ is the new high density 10Gb gbic-ish format) It’s hard to put 32 XFP modules in a single blade!
Anyhow, amazon has these
for about $1260.
Next up on my list – what kind of server will it take to grab data from a heavily utilized 10Gb data link.