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 > Indeed, port density is disappointingly poor in modern servers. Do you
 > know any with more than 14 ports per U? (That's an MBX 1U server with
 > 8 on-board and a 6-port expansion).

If you really need a ton of ports you could probably build a 1U server
with 2 * 2-port 10gig NICs, and use VLAN-capable switches with 10gig
and 1gig ports to fan out each 10gig link from your server to 10 1-gig
ports.  That would get you 40 ports of 1-gig from each server (plus
whatever the server has on board).

 - R.