10GbE ports usually require fibre not copper. As to the space left there is usually a couple of ports left. Using "Quad cards", you need to make sure they support a form of "port channeling" which allows us on the switch to group the ports together, as using "Intelligent load switching", well its not so intelligent when it tries to commit network suicide.
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