[165135] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Typical warranty for generic DWDM transceivers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clayton Zekelman)
Tue Aug 20 09:49:48 2013
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:49:18 -0400
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>,NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Clayton Zekelman <clayton@MNSi.Net>
In-Reply-To: <13820259.4304.1377005706491.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink .com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
FWIW, I've never had an issue with third party optics.
Particularly if they're OEM Finisar, JDSU, etc...
At 09:35 AM 20/08/2013, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brandon Ross" <bross@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 jra@baylink.com
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