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by packetslave 987 days ago
Well, it depends on what your use case for "10g" is. If all you care about is fast file transfers between your PC and your NAS, you can get a small 5-8 port 10gb switch for under $300 that will easily handle line-rate traffic (at least for large packet sizes)

If you want 10g line-rate bandwidth between hundreds or thousands of servers? Yeah, I used to help build those fabrics at Google. It's not cheap or easy.

10g to the internet is more about aggregate bandwidth for a bunch of clients than throughput to any single client. Except for very specialized use cases you're going to have a hard time pushing anywhere close to 10g over the internet with a single client.