I am looking for a 4U switch that can insert about six ports on blades, similar to this idea:
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The key requirement though is that each inserted card act as an independent ethernet switch. I don't want to hassle with defining VLANs that isolate ports on each blade.
My application is a firewall, with many segments. Currently we stack a lot of 1U and 2U ethernet switches, and the real estate for all of those switches is expensive in terms of rack space. A 4U box with eight insertable blades would give me eight ethernet segments to play with in an extremely condensed space. Does anyone make this?
Alternately, I could look for rackmountable ethernet switches that are about
1/2 U, if those exist.
nish