Mark Tinka wrote:
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).
SPA allows them to keep costs in the stratosphere though, nothing like
6700 LAN cards in a SPA world...
adam.
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