I was going to write a long and angsty post about how I think Cisco should be publicly villified for their continued publication of specs that don’t add up, but I’ll leave that to analysts who know more about such things than I do. I’m sure a lot of our issues arise from the fact that our procurement guy asks the vendor for a number of ports and then buys them, rather than checking with the technical guys. Suffice to say that we’re sending 4 48-port blades back because, well, if we wanted to run the ports at 4Gbps we’d have to disable 24 of the 48 ports. Hey Cisco, 2005 called and they want their shitty bandwidth back. I’m sure these blades are great for hosting providers who promise a lot and count on oversubscription to get by with less but it doesn’t work for us.
