I am building a system for a client and am looking for recommendations on a well-supported 10G Ethernet adapter. For those of you who have built systems for environments that use 10G Ethernet, what has worked well for you in the past?
"Enterprise" 10G switches are getting cheaper but still a lot of money. If you don't require enterprise there are a few options though. Netgear have some reasonably priced 10G kit. Their higher end networking kit is actually fairly solid although I can understand people avoiding it, especially for more critical situations. There's also some cheaper Mikrotik gear that has 10G, including some really cheap options if you only need a couple of 10G ports. (For instance they have a switch listed at $199 with 24 1G ports and 2 SFP+ 10G...)The cost of commercial 10G switches does not seem to be coming down very fast.
I considered building my own amd64 10G switch they cost so much.
10G SFP+ transciever have become dirt-cheap - they used to be way over 300$ just over a year ago, now they are available for <50$.SFP is more the industry norm but those modules are so pricey and the cabling cost of fibre$$.