> On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:46 AM, Warren Jackson <wrjack1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sure, no problem! > > 1) Lack of Cisco support. You will find yourself behind the eight-ball > dealing with the TAC if you have these in your chassis. Sounds like a small > deal, but I for one don't have the time to deal with it.
Sounds like you work for Cisco or were properly ingrained in their marketing thinking. > 2) Cost. If you buy through a Cisco gold provider then you are going to get > a good price on the optics, enough to where the difference pays off in > support, as these can been wrapped in through your smartnet converage. If > you have optics from another vendor you are dealing with their support and > Cisco support, keeps things simple. Makes it worth paying the bit extra you > would pay. We aren't talking about thousands of dollars difference in price > here. Not really. > 3) Who? Which SFP manufacturer(s) would you recommend besides Cisco? Finisar (for examples). > 4) Several of the Cisco SFP's provide the show tranceiver telemetry that aid > in troubeshooting the physical layer, which you won't get with the off-market > brand tranceivers. Actually, not true, this is the problem I have with their first party optics. We’ve met with their TMG group several times and have outstanding software defects that are unresolved. > Just my 2 cents based on my experience. How about the rest of you guys? We’ve had great luck with 3rd party and better support for DOM than their first party optics. - Jared > > -Warjack > > On Mon Feb 02 2015 at 11:37:59 AM Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote: > > > On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:16 AM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 03:29:41PM +0000, Rick Martin wrote: > >> I am glad to see this thread, we are on the cusp of making the plunge into > >> aftermarket optics > > > > Whatever "aftermarket" optics are - I would not go and by *used* optics, > > because that's about the only thing in modern hardware that truly ages, > > aka "optics burn out over time". > > Agreed, general use optics shouldn’t cost you more than $300, and that is > being quite generous. > > If you wanted to program your own optics, apparently you can get one of these > new raspberry pis: > > http://eoinpk.blogspot.com/2014/05/raspberry-pi-and-programming-eeproms-on.html > > It includes a link at the bottom for how to program the optics to be ‘cisco > compatible’. > > - Jared > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
