-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 July 2006 23:31, Gunther Stammwitz wrote: > > Even if everything checks out today, they can > > start failing one by one tomorrow, and in 6 months you can > > have a card with no working ports. > > Hi Rich, > That's true. Those components are going to fail sooner or later and need to > be replaced. > > > Foundry seems to have one of the worst problems in this area > > by far, primarily with certain brands of optics used in early > > production runs (I used to know which, but I've honestly > > stopped caring). Other versions of the same cards can still > > run forever, but you never know what you're going to get. If > > you really care and you can work a soldering iron, it's cheap > > and easy to replace those 1x9 transceivers, but personally > > this stopped being worth my time compared to buying new > > systems with 6x the density a long time ago. :) > > Can you tell me please what module I need to order and maybe where I can > get it? I don't want to throw a whole card away only because of ONE broken > port. > > > If you really must keep using (or at least doing new > > deployments of) those things, do yourself a favor and buy > > cards with modular optics like M4s and BxGs for a few bucks more. > > We have deployed a lot of those modules and I need to to get them replaced. > The problem is that I need the GIGEs on the managementcard because all > other slots are full so I need to get them fixed. > > I can't mix jetcore and ironcore but the M4s you were mentioning are an > option. Are you absolutely sure that they are not affected by this problem?
I think Richard mention the M4 and BxG only because of their replaceable GBIC/mini-GBIC optics, so you lose not the whole board in the case of multiple port failures. - -- Gerald -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEzbnedemQaDIefeoRAnEaAJ9mBweBonPKnRO9C3ENlyQyRdFAqACgrsjJ 7vKXEd/Q+4hs90Gt631pwuI= =/icd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
