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aagrafi
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June 19, 2017
Question

Direct Attach Cable (DAC) for QSFP+

  • June 19, 2017
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Hello,

Does anybody know if Fortinet supports any active DAC QSFP+ to QSFP+ cable? In the pricelist I only found a quad cable QSFP+ to 4xSFP+, but not a QSFP+ to QSFP+. I need to connect two FSWs over 40G and if I use the QSFP+ transceivers the price goes too high. Our competitor (HP) has proposed DACs at a very competitive price that kicks us out of the project. Has anybody used DACs to connect FSWs at 40G? Which vendor?

 

Thanks

Andreas

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    romanr
    New Member
    June 19, 2017

    Hi,

     

    we use standard passive QSPF+ DAC cables for the Fortiswitches and they work completely fine.

     

    I don't think there is official support for it - but also Fortinet uses them in their labs an testing environments...

     

    Br,

    Roman

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