[168055] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open source hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aled Morris)
Tue Jan 7 10:16:01 2014
In-Reply-To: <52CC07DC.4080903@ramapo.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 15:12:38 +0000
From: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk>
To: Vlade Ristevski <vristevs@ramapo.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7 January 2014 13:57, Vlade Ristevski <vristevs@ramapo.edu> wrote:
> Sorry to get off topic, but is there a company that you can recommend? The
> price of the Cisco single mode GLC-LH-SMD= is killing me. I see a bunch of
> third party ones on Amazon and CDW but I'd to love to get my hands one
> that has the correct vendor code without going and trying them all.
In Europe, http://www.flexoptix.net are recommended.
They also sell blank modules and give you a programmer too, so you can
stock fewer spares and program them for whatever vendor you need in an
outage/rapid deployment situation.
I'm sure they'd ship to the US.
Aled
