[127213] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Blackford)
Thu Jun 17 16:54:18 2010
In-Reply-To: <4C1A38CD.6020904@utc.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:16:40 -0700
From: Bill Blackford <bblackford@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
And to add to it here's a Cisco SFP in a Juniper chassis showing a
serial number that looks suspiciously like a Finisar serial number.
PIC 1 REV 04 711-021270 AR0209216364 4x GE SFP
Xcvr 0 NON-JNPR FNS0932K03B SFP-SX
-b
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu> wrote:
> On 6/17/2010 10:40 AM, Andrew Thrift wrote:
>> =A0Another 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
>
>
--=20
Bill Blackford
Network Engineer
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