10Gb + 100Gb Linux-based Distribution Switch! 

I absolutely carry a serial cable in my bag 🤣

"No one ever got fired for buying cisco" is an "updated" version of "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" Honestly, it's no longer year 2000 anymore, or even 2010. There's so much better available now from competitors.

The S5300-24S8T6X is a very useful switch for me, the use case described is exactly what I would use it for.

Best "sponsored" video I've seen in a while... puts others like unbox therapy to shame.

Interesting video to show our switch, much appreciate, Jeff!

Nice, I'll have to check them out, thanks for sharing. 👍

Ninkasi's brews are as tasty and as bold as their can art is awesome. I love aromatic beers.

The price of the WAPs are also quite good, would be really interested to see more on them.

Is the audio L/R balance leaning to the left ear more than usual, or is that me?

Yeah this looks like a great thing to look into.

Yup switch with a whole pile of SFP ports for the fraction of the cost of a C9300 has got me excited, I will be having a chat with our procurement/vendor management people to get them to have a nose

The biggest hurdle ive seen in the wild wasn't actually the 10g switches. Its the cabling. A lot of office building are decades old and have CAT5 cables for client and interconnect through the walls. And they often just rent the space. So upgrading isnt possible as that woul require opening up the walls. I've had to run railing on the walls to circumvent this but yeah... Amd them you've got the problems of workstation not having 10gb NIC. I can't wait til more consumer grade motherboards have it on board. 2.5gb is barely seen outside of premium motherboards. I like my small from factor PCs in my house (and my main rig) but i can't exactly add a 10gb NIC on a mini itx board :(

Jeff if possible please do a follow up video on the actual features of the switch. Like can I run rdma RoCE scenarios, precision time protocol, etc. for many users the point of this switch would be to attach storage (for me cameras), but I’m not sure if it will efficiently support this with low latency. More info would be appreciated.

We still stick with Cisco at my company, it just works and we have a larger network compaired to our size. But cisco is also kinda cheap here in terms of what i pay for it.

Wicked video, loved this Jeff.

Holy shit I have been waiting for this video for years, this product line is the exact fit I was looking for as a home unit. Fuuuuck, now I know what to goal for! 🤣🍻

And here I were getting all excited to hear about doing cool stuff on a switch that's linux based and then it's just a commercial..

The company I work for uses Cisco and they are reliable but man are they expensive! Great video Jeff!

Something's not right here.. I think it's the audio.

No subscription and 100gb! Sounds like the future of business networking! As far as home this would be massive overkill!

Great video as always but is the sound slightly off - seems quieter one side?

Interesting switches, I still won't give up my Junipers, but these do look interesting.

Bro that offer at the end quite the deal....

I would love to see something similar to this in the 25gbe space to compete with Mikrotik and QNAP

What i have been waiting for is a followup or competitor to my CRS354-48G-4S+2Q+RM(seriously please dont put modifiers in your product name) All i want is to swap out the 1G ports for 2.5 or 5g, keep the 4x10g and 2x40G

For most of my clients everything is in the cloud, since their internet is not faster then 1 Gbit, their network doesn't need to be either. Quick Tech tip. Don't migrate your print server to the cloud, it's hell for any one regularly printing Adobe PDF. Or anything image based.

Love the reverse snoop dog.😊

I would say 10Gb is already outdated. I would not invest in 10Gb switches for servers, and go with 25Gb. Or if can find good deals, on used hardware, maybe 40Gb, but know that it is also kind of dead tech. (40Gb is 4x10Gb, but most big stuff is now 100Gb using 4x25Gb). So using 25Gb is more future proof in a sense, as one can usually split 100Gb ports into 4 25Gb ports easily and cheaply. 10Gb switches were okish maybe 5 years ago, and standard. Now not so much.

I am not a networking guy... I mean sure, as a private cloud engineer, there will always be some networking involved but I am not THE network guy of the company by a long shot. This video makes me want to open a municipal ISP :D. If only I could get the fiber laid into the streets... Our ex national telco doesn't seem capable of it... Seriously though, if I had the balls I'd try to get my own cloud provider running based on hardware like this. I am getting real tired of paying the likes of Cisco, HP, Lenovo, NetApp, EMC, Vmware and so on millions in support contracts that have gotten very questionable in usefulness lately...

I sure do love the networking content :-D ! If you have time, would you be up for throwing up a couple screenshots of the post process up on the community page? I am very curious which ASIC and CPU they are using in these as that usually tells the best story for hardware capabilities. I went looking on the QSFPtek sales page, but I haven't found the info over there yet.

I won't upvote an advertisement, but I'll comment so you get the bonus interaction points.

"or desktop if your being really weird about it". For some reason that made me LOL, I almost choked on the dunkaroos I stole from my kids snack bin.

These look decent. I have been looking for an inexpensive option that also includes 10G base T ports. Ubiquiti used to have the ES-16-XG but they have been out of stock everywhere for over a year.

I don't need a municipal ISP grade fiber switch... but I _want_ one

Just a tad too expensive for me. I want to upgrade my 16 port SFP+ Mikrotik, and I was looking at the model with 24x10Gbps SFP+ plus 2 QSFP+ (40gbE), which is EOL. So those QSFP+ ports would serve me well for the storage, and 40GbE cards are dirt cheap. I think I saw it for U$S500.

Why would a switch need subscriptions? - that sounds super shady - I would never buy a switch that requires subscriptions.

full duplex 1g!? I have 2g symmetrical fiber (2300mb actual) - if I were doing isp work, I wouldn't want anything short of 10g so I would have room to offer different tiers of service (for example, I can get up to 5g fiber right now, and I was told that would probably increase after they finish the rollout to my neighborhood (it's a very new rollout and I don't think they have any idea how their provisioning is going to look once the initial burst of signups is complete so it makes sense for them to not offer the max they can deliver to everyone all at once if it's going to be severely overprovisioned). tl;dr: all isps should be using AT LEAST 10g on the customer side ad AT LEAST 100gb on the uplink side (preferably 200 or perhaps even 400 depending on the size of the switch)

This is an interesting Switch

Thats awesome. Absolutely overkill for "your mom using the pc"-tier of user... but still great nonetheless.

As for the other "usual disclaimers", did they get to see before or approve the video Jeff?

I know of a place where the "standard" is 100Mbit and they have devices bandwidth limited to 1/2 of that! Did I mention that the devices are involved in moving large images all day some of which are 2GBs in size? So frustrating!

Interesting video, although someone of my level is only just "testing the waters" of home networking myself. However, i noticed that your mic audio isnt centred in the video? i did faff with my headphones to see if it was just my end (as my headphones are rather decrepit after nearly 8 years of usage), but it showed up on my other audio devices too. it all seems left-focussed rather than centred🤔

Really late... I do question myself about MTBF time of multi SFP port switches cited in this video. Because hardware cost is only one part of the installation fee for geographical networks.

I don't need it...I don't need it..but GOD I WANT IT.

1:30 😂🤣

I wonder if Jeff will eventually get tired and won't be Jeff one of these days. :D

You mention nothing about their support ? If I get a bug impacting my data-center, how fast will I get a patch?

why the right audio channel is so low!

Cisco would get mad at me if I didn't have a console cable on hand lol

og 3com.....switches.... 3com anyone? anyone?

I have a hard time using a switch that’s owned by a company out of hongkong, while agree the Cisco tax sucks at least you know your data isn’t being harvested at best or back doored at worst by the Chinese government

If the OS is based on Linux then how Free is it? Can I compile my own kernel and install it on these switches? Are there any proprietary firmwares and/or drivers?

interesting 🤔

I was about to agree with your sentiment that gigabit should go but then you said *one thousand dollars* and I just saw gigabit last until 2040.

Do the sponsors in videos like this have final say over what content can or can't be in the video, or are you free to say whatever you want?

Which is your favourite brand and why is it QSFPTEK?

What about L3 routing performance?

Yea... in an enterprise, I can tell you from years of experience, switches don't "just work"

10gbe should have become mainstream in 2013

"or desktop if you're reallyweird about it" ... well guess i'm weird for doing it on my Desktop lol

There’s a dual 10g 4 2.5g unmanaged switch all rj45. For $150

I love you but something is up with the audio that made me unable to watch it's a me problem

Sweat, glad they didn't stupid registration stuff

Gigabit? I just finished upgrading all of our access switches from fast ethernet to 2.5gig on Saturday.

If I have to get a serial to type c adapter, then how will I use my core 2 laptop that has a native port on it?

7:20 Coughs in 25 Gb/s FTTH 🙂.

vxworks is linux??? do you mean wind river linux distro

MikroTik please!!!

Do they have anything to do with FS?

Ummmm... Mikrotik 2x100 & 16x25 for $1600? The CRS317 with 16x10 for $500? Mikrotik has been around since the '90s, and their hardware is better than anything else in the same class. Their stuff is absolute workhorses. It's more capable, and cheaper... I don't mind a guy making money, but there's better equipment for cheaper out there

I enjoy watching you, but this video really got me going. You're an influencer and to think you might lead lead some poor young IT manager to try to persuade the Director into choosing this over a 9300 is down right dangerous. The datasheet is 6 pages, I've seen some Netgear switches with more content then this document provides. I think I counted around 10 IEEE named standards. Not a mere mention of FCC, ISO or even UL certifications and that's just US Certs.. MIB's, I guess they don't know what they are, not a word. Stacking 8 switches with a 40Gbps interconnect, not even a backplane, seriously even the baby 9300 supports 1TBps, without using up a single preciouses QSFP port. You stack this correctly you won't end up with a single free 40G port. I'm guessing the X means it doesn't have a multicast routing table, how's that going to play out with a service provider? No IPv6 ACL's. The more I read, looks like they chose to use an X to indicate supported. Good choice, how's about a check mark, no let's use an X. The table column descriptions are on page 5 and the table is on page 6. If they can't spend the time to properly format a 6 page document, just imagine what other corners they've cut. I don't who in their right mind with any enterprise class networking experience would ever bet their job and most likely their career on installing this in their organization. I know this is the first time I've ever written a comment like this, in my 20+ years on RU-vid. This year I'll be celebrating my 25th year as a triple CCIE, don't spend 1 second looking at this product.

Does the 10/100G switch do BGP? If not it's barely interesting

I tore cisco out of my network

Rip it? Out? Be gentle.

fyi sound sounds unbalanced!

only one problem with them - would you like to host your core network by Chinese Switch?

😂😂 just $1000 to upgrade home network .. jef, make money away from us bro ... we can barely afford our food shopping now a days ... have a wonderful paid promotional materials

Hi Jeff! In case it is helpful, the url in the description for the "QSFPTEK S5300-24S8T6X" doesn't show up as a hyperlink. Not sure if it is worth fixing for more link-goodness.

no teardown ;( i want to see those pcb mask easter eggs damnit