Direct Attach Cable (DAC) for QSFP+

[aagrafi]

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

[romanr]

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