Friday, January 29, 2021

Need 5Gbe/2.5Gbe - Use SFP+ Transceivers, Additional Switch, or Something Else?

I have an Aruba S2500 switch that has 4 SFP+ ports. I have a couple of ports connected to Intel X520 cards, but I need to connect two other computers, located next to the switch, that only have 2.5GbE connections. The only connection options I can think of are finding Aruba compatible transceivers that will work at 2.5GbE or adding an additional switch that provides 5Gbe/2.5Gbe connections as well as an SFP+ port that I can use to connect to the Aruba switch.

Do either of these ideas make sense? Is there another approach I can use to connect the last two computers at 2.5GbE?



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