It boils down to a business case.
In my travels we see a high failure rate -- higher than I'd like to see
--, but $boss likes the price, and, as Jason pointed out below, for the
price, it can be a "successful" business model.
In a nutshell:
For someone on a budget, they're great; buy spares.
For someone who doesn't want to deal with outages, call-volume, hands
tickets, truck-rolls, and has money to burn, there are better alternatives.
On 9/20/19 2:41 PM, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
We have maybe 1:50 DOA, but they’re so cheap, we just throw them out because
it’s not worth the RMA.
That said, I can’t remember the last time we’ve had any of these fail in the
field, or have had any issues with variablity in TX/RX power. We have tens of
thousands of these in the field, from 100Mb Bidi to 100G-LR and everything in
between, including *WDM up to 80KM.
On Sep 20, 2019, at 8:31 AM, Nicholas Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
Anyone have experience with fs.com's lasers? Are they reliable?
