> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alessandra Forti [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 10 January 2012 14:42
>
> > I think shaving the spec for the sake of a few hundred quid per node is
> > an entirely false economy. Ewan
>
> Even wasting it on non necessary features.
> The choice of the 10GBE cards will be up to the site clearly.
>
I really would put 10Gb cards in everything, now. It's
inconceivable that anyone's going to not have 10Gbit local
networking with a faster-than-one-gig offsite link by the end
of the five year period that this stuff is supposed to last
for, and there's no guarantee that we'll be able to get a
suitable, much less identical, card in (say) three years
when some site gets their network upgrade sorted.
Ewan
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