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| posted by Jeremy Lang on Oct. 11, 2014, 2:40 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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It's been a while, or I missed one. One suggestion I'd have for content would be high-end switching. 10gE to artist desktops is becoming a thing for a lot of workflows. All the companies that used to specialize in M&E have been bought out and merged into god knows what. It's hard, for me at least, to find good solutions in the space between more than 48 ports and a big expensive chassis. I really miss the back-end stacking switches like the Cisco 3750E had. Burning though 4 client ports per swtich connected for trunking and having bottlenecks isn't my idea of a solution even if they have something that ties them together for management as one logical switch... I've now been to Cisco booths at several M&E events (especially NAB) and the look of shock on their faces when I ask who I can talk to about SWITCHES is infuriating! IF they have a solution for me I don't have a week to dig it out of their website... It'd be great to get representatives from what's left of the old standbys (Force10 and Extreme) or at least high end VARs for them to tell us they haven't forgotten us! Then there's all the new upstarts that look promising, but a frank discussion of concerns about equipment sourced through China would be great too. ______________ Jeremy M. Lang it4vfx |