On 12/03/2010 10:04, Benny Amorsen wrote: > These days you can get cheap twinax 10G cables with SFP+ at the ends to > connect two Cisco switches or two Procurves. Short distance only of > course, but very cheap. > > I would like to connect a Procurve 5406zl which has a SFP+ port to one > of the 10Gbps ports on a Cisco 7600 RSP720-3CXL-10GE.
As far as I'm aware, HP are particularly crappy about vendor locking their transceiver ports and will refuse to drive any "third party" transceiver. > Twinax ends in SFP+, the ports on the RSP720 are X2. Are > there any adapters from X2 to SFP+? > > Also, twinax SFP+ are manufacturer-specific. Is it possible to get a > twinax-cable with a Cisco-coded SFP+ at one end and a Procurve-coded > SFP+ at the other? It's certainly possible to hack one up, if you have transceiver. > If a twinax-based solution isn't possible, what is the cheapest > solution? One option might be a Cisco OneX Converter, with a procurve twinax sfp+ cable. There are no guarantees it would work, even if you use service unsupported-transceiver on the cisco side. However, if it worked, it would probably be quite cheap. > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/modules/ps5455/data_sheet_c78-547521.html If this doesn't work, I'd say you're going to be stuck with multimode SR interfaces. X2 only supports CX4 for copper, but unfortunately, the CX4 form-factor will not physically fit on an SFP+ module. Nick -- Network Ability Ltd. | Head of Operations | Tel: +353 1 6169698 3 Westland Square | INEX - Internet Neutral | Fax: +353 1 6041981 Dublin 2, Ireland | Exchange Association | Email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
