[AusNOG] Cisco Compatible SFP's

[Tim Raphael]

It’s less a case of 1-in-a-million and more about statistical likelihood of failure. 

Cheaper price = lower quality, it’s a case of when not if you’ll encounter a failure and if that’s acceptable to your business. 
If you’re prepared to have spares, prepared to see a link fail and can have it replaced in a reasonable time, that’s an acceptable risk.
If any of the above isn’t acceptable, you make a more reliable choice.

- Tim

> On 28 Jun 2023, at 14:14, Mark Caetano <mark at mc.id.au> wrote:
> 
> What sealed the deal for me was sitting on the floor of a DC to replace a dodgy (new) 10G-LR and feeding an entire tray into this chassis, and every one of them belching errors instantly. Scheduling midnight outages to replace 4x failed SFP’s spread across Sydney that we were assured were a “new and better quality” batch just rubbed salt in the wound. 
> 
> The aftersales support was pretty lacklustre even after demonstrating many many failures. It gets to a point when you need to remember you’re running a network, not a charity, and if they’re not up to par, there’s no “giving them a chance”
> 
> We also had a decent cross-section of 100G-LR’ and ER’s all faulty very early on before we just decided to return all of our stock to their warehouse. 
> 
> Codecom actually trust that a field tech/neteng know what they’re talking about when they say an optic is cooked, and send RMA without making you run through bullshit hoops. That, and Purcell will always take your call and endeavour to help where they can. 
> 
> That being said, FS uniboots are still the best patch leads. 
> 
> ---
> Regards,
> Mark Caetano
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On 28 Jun 2023, at 13:56, Shane Chrisp <shane at 2000cn.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> On 28/6/23 10:06, Chris Brown wrote:
>> 
>> Have to mention another good supplier is Simple Tech APAC https://www.simpletech.com.au/. We have been using their modules for more than 10 years and have never had a faulty one yet.
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> Shane Chrisp
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>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> Who do we use and trust for Cisco Compatible SFPs? I'm looking for some 1000Base-LX and the cisco price is completely crazy compared to the likes of FS who just seem too cheap but also have quick dispatch stock.
>>> 
>>> This is for floor switches with redundancy so its not super critical.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
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