Mikrotik seems very tolerant of no name brand SFP modules. I get mine from China for $20 a pair.
Have hundreds in the field, work fine for me. From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Faisal Imtiaz Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 9:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Multimode BIDI Worth clarifying.... The Mikrotik SFP's (or any other generic SFP's) will work inside a Cisco Router/ Switch if you turn off (cisco hidden command) the Cisco check for Cisco branded optics. :) Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] ________________________________ From: "Josh Baird" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 11:25:56 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Multimode BIDI They work with Cisco if you disable the the unsupported-transceiver service. On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:22 PM, George Skorup <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I've heard too many stories of modules "working" but not working. It's detected, you get link status and all that, but end up with packet loss and/or CRC/FCS errors. The only SFPs I've used with Routerboards so far are MikroTik branded. I have one talking to a Ciena 3930. And another talking to a dumb media converter. Those both work fine. Was it Jason that was having issues getting them to talk cleanly to a Cisco or Planet switch? I really don't trust any MikroTik product to be very reliable, but they're cheap so we can have lots of spares. :) On 5/27/2015 9:28 PM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: will it work in a MikroTik!? Why shouldn't they ? To the best of my knowledge MT don't use locked Optics.. additionally SFP's & SFP+'s are a standard .. There are a few options on the modules (mostly for reporting light levels and temp etc) that may or may not work... Regards Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232<tel:305%20663%205518%20x%20232> Help-desk: (305)663-5518<tel:%28305%29663-5518> Option 2 or Email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Skorup" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 9:44:55 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Multimode BIDI Nice. $30-50 an end ain't bad. BUT.. will it work in a MikroTik!? On 5/27/2015 8:31 PM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: also... http://www.sfpex.com/bidi-sfp/1g-bidi Regards Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232<tel:305%20663%205518%20x%20232> Help-desk: (305)663-5518<tel:%28305%29663-5518> Option 2 or Email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Faisal Imtiaz" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 9:23:30 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Multimode BIDI Nate, If you are not able to locate the MM Bidi SFP's, you might want to try the SMF Bidi on your MM fiber run.. Take a look at this:- https://www.flexoptix.net/blog/en/2013/07/bidi-in-operation-on-multimode-fibre/ Regards Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232<tel:305%20663%205518%20x%20232> Help-desk: (305)663-5518<tel:%28305%29663-5518> Option 2 or Email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nate Burke" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "Animal Farm" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 3:07:41 PM Subject: [AFMUG] Multimode BIDI Is there a MultiMode BIDI SFP? I need to run a connection across a warehouse, they have 3 pair of multimode fiber, but all 3 are already in use. They won't let me tunnel connections together, because that would be touching 'their' network, but I could probably talk them into using only a single Strand, to let me have one. Googling around hasn't yielded any results yet, but I'm still searching. Any other passive deivce to get 2 connections on one/pair Multimode fiber? Nate
