Top of Rack Switches
Last updated: June 25, 2009

Below are most of the low profile, top-of-rack, 10GbE switches that we are aware of on the market today. For switches that have two or four 10GbE ports typically intended for uplinking, those are NOT listed here, but rather on our Hybrid Stackables page. When available we show both the list price and the web price. The price/port is computed from the best price shown divided by the minimum number of 10GbE ports that the switch ships with by default.

Some of these switches are simple layer-2 while others offer more advanced layer-3 functionality. This is list is essentially the low profile switches with limited configuration capabilities. The price/port below is the lower of the list or web price shown divided by number of ports that ship with the base configuration.

If you work for one of the below companies and have published pricing or performance data for any of these products please send an email to admin@10gbe.net and we would be happy to update the tables below.

Low Profile Switches
Sorted by price/port, lowest to highest
Switch
List
Price
Web
Price
$/Port
Height
Layer
CX4
Ports
SFP+ Ports
Buy
$18,995
 
$395
1U
3
0
48
$11,995
 
$499
1U
3
0
24
$23,995
 
$499
1U
3
0
48
BNT: G8100
$12,000
 
$500
1U
2
20
4
Cisco Nexus 2000
$
$
$?
?U
?
0
?
Cisco Nexus 5010
$
$
$?
1U
2
0
28
Cisco Nexus 5020
$583
2U
2
0
Fujitsu: XG700  
$590
1U
2
12
0
Cisco Nexus 5010  
$598
1U
2
0
Quadrics TG201-CA  
$600
1U
2
24
0
Extreme: Summit X650-24X  
$617
1U
3
0
24
$
HP: Procurve 6400ci J8433A  
$627
1U
3
6
0
Fujitsu: XG2000  
$645
1U
2
16
4 XFP
Quadrics TG201-XA  
$675
1U
2
12
12 XFP
Extreme: Summit X650-24T
$17,774
$741
1U
3
24 10GBaseT
0
$
Juniper EX2500  
1U
2
0
24
SMC: 8708L2 (Accton)
 
$751
1U
2
0
8 XFP
HP: Procurve 6400cl6XG  
$904
1U
3
6
0
HP: Procurve 6400ci J8474A  
$936
1U
3
0
6
QSSC LB610CX  
$940
1U
2
20
0
$
QSSC LB600SF  
$940
1U
2
0
20
$
SMC: SMC8724-10BT  
$972
1U
2
20 10GBaseT
4
$
Force10: S2410CP  
$1,000
1U
2
20
4 XFP
Accton: ES5508  
$1,202
1U
3
0
8 XFP
Force10: S2410P
$1,250
1U
2
0
24 XFP
Fujitsu: June 26-port, no P/N yet  
$?
0
26
$
Nortel:  
$?
0
0
$
Foundry: FastIron GS-STK  
$?
0
0
$
Foundry: FastIron LS-STK  
$?
0
0
$

IBM BladeCenter 10GbE Switches
Sorted by price/port, lowest to highest
Switch
List
Price
Web Price
Price/Port (blade+ext)
Internal Blade Ports
External XFP Ports
Buy
BladeNetwork Technologies IBM P/N 39Y9267
 
$510
14
6

HP BladeSystem 10GbE Switches
Sorted by price/port, lowest to highest
Switch
List
Price
Web
Price
Price/Port (blade+ext)
Internal Blade Ports
External XFP Ports
Buy
BladeNetwork Technologies HP P/N 445860
 
$475
16
4