Title. Just curious why NICs are so expensive considering manages switches seem to have much more responsibility and many more ports.

  • sethamin@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Those are very different things. A switch is not just a bunch of NICs put together. Probably it’s some asic with specialized logic to inspect and route layer 2 packets. A nic has way more functionality than that in it since it needs to integrate with the os and serialize and deserialize from the physical layer.