On Friday 02 October 2009 10:27:37 pm Justin Shore wrote: > It seems to me that there should be a standards body > within Cisco that should mandate certain minimum > requirements of all product lines. If and when there is > the ability for BUs and product lines to share common and > trivial products like SFPs then they should require it. > It would save them R&D and QA money if nothing else.
This is the thing I really like about "J". Across a specific series of platforms, e.g., M/T/MX, all optics are shared, including SFP-to-copper modules. It's a real pity when you can no longer take such simple pleasures for granted. I think Cisco's SPA technology is a step in the right direction re: optical modules, since they're all shared among the various platforms that support this interface model, but I wonder how many of Cisco's customers will be moving to the SIP/SPA format soon (and it likely won't be because of common SFP/XFP sparing). Cheers, Mark.
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