[AusNOG] 3rd Party SFP+ Optics

[Christopher Mclean]

Hi All,

I am a vendor of modules but I am going to just give info and not try to sell as there is a little bit of information about 3rd party and vendor supplied SFP's that is generally missed in conversations.

There are certain switches from HP, Juniper and Cisco (maybe some others) that cannot use standard off the shelf modules. There is a hardware change required to make them operate (particularly with DDM/DOM). A word of advice when buying modules is to ALWAYS specify the switch they will go into to avoid them failing when you receive them.

Best regards,
Chris McLean
Senior Sales Engineer
Ausoptic International
0431733557

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Subject: [AusNOG] 3rd Party SFP+ Optics

Good evening Gentlepeople,

I will keep this simple and straight to the point:

You buy 10G network switches from recognised brand name vendor(s).

Please do tell me why you chose (or chose not to) use 3rd party SFP+ optics in your gear at 1/4 the price rather than going to your vendor for the modules.

Feel free to reply off list if you want to shame an entity outside of the public eye :)

Thanks in advance for your opinions!

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