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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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. >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> >> Shane Chrisp >> 2000 Computers & Networks Pty Ltd >> U8, 19 Outram St, West Perth, WA 6005 >> Ph 08 6298 7391 Fx 08 6298 7393 >> Mb 0412 409 856 >> Email [email protected] >> Web http://www.2000cn.com.au >> >> >> >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> AusNOG mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
