[127212] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Kell)
Thu Jun 17 16:54:12 2010
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:01:33 -0400
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: Andrew Thrift <andrew@networklabs.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <4C1A33C4.6040005@networklabs.co.nz>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 6/17/2010 10:40 AM, 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.
Very true (and you thought Cisco was proud of their branded optics...).
Apparently the HP ink cartridge marketing department is in cahoots with
their network optics counterparts :-)
Jeff
