> > I have some (though not much) sympathy for Cisco's not wanting to > > support 3rd party transceivers. Hey, they have to feed their kids and > > all that. But I fail to see why they won't support their own > > transceivers. That's just plain stupid. > > Support takes testing > Testing takes time > Time costs money
Also, Cisco makes significant amounts of money on this, so why should they give it up? > ... plus, given a finite amount of time, there'll always be > prioritization on what to do when. We may not always agree with the > priorities, but you shouldn't doubt that they're done. > > > Oh well, we're in talks with a 3rd party provider that deliver optics > > that work without "service unsupported-transceiver" at a much lower > > price and 3 year warranty. > > The problem with using Cisco-coded transceivers is that it makes it > much harder to figure out what's going on. (And yes, lots of those > pluggables that appear to work, frequently fails. Been there, seen it > many times on support cases). We have also been using Cisco-coded transceivers for years, and haven't had significantly worse failure rate on those than on optics purchased from Cisco. YMMV. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
