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  • From: Tim Chown <>
  • To: Alexander Gall <>
  • Cc: "" <>
  • Subject: Re: [RARE-users] Moving to 400G
  • Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:26:48 +0000
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That’s very helpful, thanks.

> On 11 Mar 2024, at 12:22, Alexander Gall <> wrote:
>
> Hi Tim
>
> adding to what Frédéric said: we payed around 20'000EUR (18'500CHF)
> when we bought a few of them for SWITCH last summer (via
> STORDIS). It's probably still more or less the same (it hasn't changed
> much since Tofino2 was released).
>
> --
> Alex
>
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:43:00 +0000, Tim Chown <> said:
>
>> Hi,
>> We have an Edgecore Wedge running RARE/FreeRtr in a London PoP with
>> 32x100G ports, though we’re only using 4 or 5 of the ports, a 100BF-32X.
>
>> We’re interested in having 400G capability, at least for internal server
>> communication.
>
>> What is the 400G version of that switch, and ball park cost (the 100G
>> device was about 7500EUR iirc) and is RARE being run on that also?
>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim--


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