----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brandon Ross" <br...@pobox.com>
> She has sold many thousands of optics, all with lifetime warrantys. > Many of them to very large and clueful organizations, many of whom are > represented here on NANOG. Of those thousands sold, I can count less > than 20 that have been returned. > > I've also worked for VARs in the past, and work with several of > them today, selling new OEM branded optics. I've found a MUCH higher > percentage of OEM optics having to be returned to the manufacturer. > > Of course, take my report with a grain of salt. Not at all: No one is gonna stop buying Cisco cause a Cisco optic died. Third-party manufacturers don't have that built in cushion, so it's not unreasonable that they might pay the higher degree of attention to reliability that your off-the-cuff statistics imply. You do want to go third-party, though, not fourth-party or below. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274