What are people doing for many line-rate SFP+ routers? I'm thinking something in the 16+ port range. Must flow actual 10 gigabits full duplex of IP per port.

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The only thing I found is these NICs....

http://www.hotlavasystems.com/products_10gbe.html

However for what it's worth....at the 10Gb/sec level I'd go ASICs. At that rate an MX80 is probably for the better. Or maybe a Cisco 6503/6506 with like a Sup 2T.

In the PCI 2.0 days, 10GigE was limited by the bus, IIRC. We now have PCI 3.

The HotLava demos while showing impressive numbers, never used the whole pipe.

The 65xx series does have a lot of scale, but due to being very old is kind of weak from a feature perspective and uses as much electricity as the USS Enterprise.

When I last priced the MX series... they were like $60k. Big difference in price from an x86 solution.

On the used market, I haven't seen staggering price differences amongst the MX series. The MX80 I saw was within 10% of the MX480 and they're very different.

Actually, at the throughput I'm looking for, I'd be in MX240 territory. Too bad there's nothing between the 104 at 80 gigabit and the 240 at 1920 gigabit.

There is the Intel X710

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ ... -x710.html

But the XL710 is a very new chipset, I doubt RouterOS 6 which is based on a 3.3 kernel will have support for it.

Hotlava have their Tambora line which are based on the trust 82599 chipset and a PLX bridge. These are supported by RouterOS 6.


Without Mikrotik using DPDK http://dpdk.org/ I do not think you will realise the potential of these cards and modern multi core x86 systems on RouterOS.