[127211] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Thu Jun 17 16:54:10 2010
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:56:04 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4C1A33C4.6040005@networklabs.co.nz>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:40:04AM +1200, Andrew Thrift wrote:
> Another major negative with the HP gear for us is that their switches
> only support SFP/SFP+ modules manufactured by HP, so those SFP+ Twin-AX
> cables that came with your Dell/IBM Blade chassis will be useless to
> connect to your HP Switches, to add insult HP often sell their own
> modules at 3x the price of an equivalent module from say Extreme or Juniper.
I've had no issues putting Netgear multimode GBICs into 1800-24g switches.
Of course, these are probably useless for most people here.
Btw, 3Com is HP now. Apparently, people liked 4800G series a lot.
http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1276786511413+28353475&threadId=1400446
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