I have to wonder if vendors are subsidizing line cards with GBIC/SFP sales.
Once one vendor does it, everybody else has to follow to stay competitive.
Either that or it such a huge cash-cow they wont let it go.
I guess the compatible design of GBIC/SFPs benefits the vendor not the
end-user, as
I know of a dozen vendors in taiwan/china that will ask you which eeprom
code you want on your SFP if you order there. They do have almost any
code available, be it HP or Cisco or whatever. The SFPs will be
correctly detected by the device and work just like a original. (However
the SFPs do have
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:38:47PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
I heard some grumbling that HP implemented vendor locking on
their switches out of the blue with no notice and significant downtime
caused to users who tried to upgrade code.
this is true. as i recall, the
Kevin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We escalated this as high as they'd let us. The reply from high up
was that they were sorry for the inconvenience, but there is no
workaround, and that it's for our own protection.
I think this was brought about because they provide a lot of free
lifetime
I was speaking with someone from Foundry just this afternoon and
asked this very question. They indicated that they had considered
doing this some time ago (forcing the use of Foundry SFPs), but first
polled some of their customer base for a reaction. Not surprisingly,
it was overwhelmingly
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I had no issues using other vendors SFP in a NIT environment and concur that
the only symptom of using a non
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Subject: Re: [j-nsp] SFP Compatibility
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:46:13PM -0500, Eric Van Tol wrote:
Hi all,
Is anyone using
Hi all,
Is anyone using Transition Networks' SFPs in their Junipers? If so,
have you had any problems with them? I'm looking at possibly using the
TN-SFP-LX12
(http://www.transition.com/TransitionNetworks/Products2/Product.aspx?ID=
26601CategoryName=tnsfp) and I'd like to know if it works. I'm
I have used Transition Networks SFPs in the past in my Junipers,
specifically TN-GLC-LH-SM, and they work very well.
On Jan 10, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Eric Van Tol wrote:
Hi all,
Is anyone using Transition Networks' SFPs in their Junipers? If so,
have you had any problems with them? I'm
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:46:13PM -0500, Eric Van Tol wrote:
Hi all,
Is anyone using Transition Networks' SFPs in their Junipers? If so,
have you had any problems with them? I'm looking at possibly using the
TN-SFP-LX12
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:03:40PM -0500, Eric Van Tol wrote:
Yeah, I'm just wondering when this will end. I've spoken with a few
different vendors about their plans for optics and they all say that we
don't lock you out *now*. I'm thoroughly unimpressed with this answer,
as it could lead to
On Jan 10, 2008 5:38 PM, Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:03:40PM -0500, Eric Van Tol wrote:
Yeah, I'm just wondering when this will end. I've spoken with a few
different vendors about their plans for optics and they all say that we
don't lock you
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