[187207] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Programmable SFP+ Transcievers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colton Conor)
Fri Jan 22 17:56:00 2016
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:55:58 -0600
From: Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>
To: frederik@kriewitz.eu
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Freddy,
So are you saying if you order enough from Fiberstore.com they will give
you a programmer? That seems like the best solution.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Frederik Kriewitz <frederik@kriewitz.eu>
wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > What options are out there for re-programmable SFP and SFP+ transceivers?
> > So far I have found both
> > https://www.flexoptix.net/en/flexbox-v3-transceiver-programmer.html and
> >
> http://solid-optics.com/tools/multi-fiber-tool/so-multi-fiber-tool-id1768.html
> > Is there anything else out there? Any opinions on these two companies?
> >
> >
> > I believe they both require you to use their SFPs in order to program
> them,
> > but I could be wrong.
>
> You're right, both companies programmers only work with their own
> transceiver.
> We've some transceivers from FlexOptix including the FlexBoxv3. We
> never had a problem with them. They have very good engineers.
> From the pricing SolidOptics list prices are better than FlexOptics,
> but just talk to them and see if they can meet your pricing
> requirements.
> In our case we ended up with FlexOptix but we're only ordering there
> when we need something urgent (same/next day).
> Otherwise we're buying directly from China (Fiberstore). Neither Solid
> Optics or FlexOptix could beat their prices. We're buying all the
> expensive stuff stuff and larger quantities from them. So far we never
> had a problem with them either. After reaching a sales volume of 30000
> USD they will give you a programmer for their transceivers too.
>
> Best Regards,
> Freddy
>
