I have recently seen that Vision DAW sample slaves ship with 10gbe cards as standard. On the VIcontrol forum there already have been discussions, wether this is the new way to go with giant slaves with 64gb of ram and more. Has anyone tested this, yet? I imagine having a dedicated Network card with 2 - 4 10gbe ports connected to the slaves and getting a great bandwidth with very low latency. Currently, I use madi cards for audio, because with my mac pro and 2 slaves setup I always had problems with VEpro, that could never be solved. Now, since I abandoned Apple for my studio, I would like to reconsider.
Now with 10gbe the bandwith is even greater than the 3 madi ports from a HDSPe Madi FX card! At a fraction of the cost.
What network cards would be recommendable for that purpose? Will a 10gbe card attached to older mobos give me the same bandwidth, as those integrated into the mobo of my latest slave (Asrock X99 extreme 6)? And why is 10gbe not a topic here on the VSL forums? It seems to be quite a milestone - at least in theory!
An alternative would be to use 1gbe with dedicated subnets for each slave, as someone has pointed out at VIcontrol ...