[187209] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Programmable SFP+ Transcievers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Crocker)
Fri Jan 22 19:47:47 2016
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From: Matthew Crocker <matthew@corp.crocker.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMDdSzNPYtvnP5oPqAHNBud+5Z3ixr_oCW0KrS6fGDzvwvMS+g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 19:47:41 -0500
To: Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
https://www.flexoptix.net/en/ will give you a programmer on your first =
order if you post something about it on social media. They also send =
some candy with every order :)
I=E2=80=99ve had very good luck with Flexoptics for SFP, SFP+ & XFP, =
Juniper, Cisco, HP all work perfectly.
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Matthew Crocker
President - Crocker Communications, Inc.
Managing Partner - Crocker Telecommunications, LLC
E: matthew@corp.crocker.com
E: matthew@crocker.com
> On Jan 22, 2016, at 5:55 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com> =
wrote:
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> Freddy,
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> So are you saying if you order enough from Fiberstore.com they will =
give
> you a programmer? That seems like the best solution.
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> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Frederik Kriewitz =
<frederik@kriewitz.eu>
> wrote:
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>> 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
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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?
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>>> I believe they both require you to use their SFPs in order to =
program
>> them,
>>> but I could be wrong.
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>> 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.
>> =46rom 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.
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>> Best Regards,
>> Freddy
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