Cisco – Dell R720 and Cisco 2960S SFP+ connection

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Can I connect a Dell R720 with a Broadcom 57840S Quad Port 10Gb SFP+ Direct Attach Rack Network Daughter Card (540-BBCN) and Cisco 2960S SPF connection? I'm using a Cisco Twinax cable and the ports show up as cable diconnected.

Any suggestions?
Thank you

Best Answer

The Cisco WS-C2960S-48-FPS-L has 4 SFP ports which operate at 1Gbps.

From the documentation I can find on the Broadcom 57840S, it has four SFP+ ports that operate at 10Gbps. I find no mention that it can support lower data rates.

As for your Cisco Twinax cables, the only ones I am aware of are 10G. These will not work in your 2960S. A couple of posts that may be somewhat relevant to this from the Cisco forums would be here and here