[191123] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arista unqualified SFP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ethan)
Thu Aug 18 14:15:06 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:59:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ethan <telmnstr@757.org>
To: =?UTF-8?Q?Fredrik_Korsb=c3=a4ck?= <hugge@nordu.net>
In-Reply-To: <7f8d72f2-fd9e-d04d-42c3-a20e12f04241@nordu.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> I think someone from Arista said...
> "We are never going to lose an affair due to not supporting 3-d party optics, but we will try to convince the customer to buy our stuff, since that's what we do, we sell stuff".
> In these cheap arista switches, filling them with optics (if the optics is from ANET themselves) is usually the same cost as buying like five switches, so of course they want a share of that and they will try to convince you that 3rd party optics will make the switch go up in flames etc etc.
> So its kinda easy... just present three choices.
Arista is an x86 Fedora box right?
Get someone to make a keygen.
