Foundry
I’ve been receiving a couple of very nice parcels the last few days. 
A shiny Foundry BigIron 4000 switch/router (it does all sorts of fun stuff like BGP4 and VRRP ^^), which currently has a single RPS3 power supply (550W) and a B8GM management blade, which has 8 gigabit fiber ports. I’m planning to get it in a flightcase at the end of the month (it’ll be carried around a fair bit, and these things are way too expensive to throw around unprotected), and of course there’ll be more blades and a second power supply coming some time as well. The plan for now is to load it with two power supplies (redundant; if one fails, the other still has enough juice to power the whole system), two additional B8G blades and a B24E, making for a total of 24 gigabit fiber and 24 10/100 copper ports. The only real downside on these units is that they’re quite heavy (especially when fully loaded) and that they produce a lot of noise. You could probably use the fans to dry your hands if you wanted to.
I’ve been playing with it (of course), and its management system is a thing to get used to. It’s either the command-line interface (which takes time to learn all the commands and stuff like that), or the web interface (which is not much more than clicking commands instead of typing, requires some things to be set up in the command-line anyway).
Naturally I have some pictures online (and more may be added at any time).
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