For a project I need to be able to switch max 8 ports at 1Gbps or 2.5Gbps and connect the switch to to two 1OG routers.
I am tempted to reuse the CRS317 with an RJ45 SFP module, but would it requires to have empty SFP+ slot between connections? Is this better in such case to use a CRS312-4C+8XG-RM ?
If you need 10 up to 10G ports then the CRS317 would be the best fit if you plan on using some 1G only SFP adapters or if you are going to use SFP+ DACs for some connections.
as for 2.5G i am not sure i will have a usage for it. but I see some hardware coming with 2.5G porte now like QNAP NAS so best to prepare a little for it.
Mikrotik doesn’t really have any 2.5Gbits Switches…
a friend of mine bought the QNAP QSW-2104-2S Switch
to connect some 2.5Gbits Devices and he is very pleased with it !
well the CRS 10G RJ45 and SFP+ models are able to handle 2.5G using the appropriate receiver for the SFP+ models. But yes I agree qnap do interresting things..