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RE: GBIC compatibility and pricing (was Managed, cheap, DC power switches)
From: "Steve Dalberg" <sdalberg () marchex com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:15:45 -0700
This reason is twofold, one is Resellers were just buying whatever cheap gbics they could and bundling them with Procurve switches (I'm sure this happens to other vendors too). Thus most of the profitable parts of switch sales were being eroded by the resellers. The other is that Procurve offers a lifetime warranty on most (possibly all) of their products, including gbics I believe, thus the premium. I believe you can just RMA a Procurve GBIC, and they will send you a new one, no receipts, no worries, no expiration, no service contract. He shouldn't have to eat 300 gbics unless he bought non-Procurve ones to begin with. HP should be able to exchange/reprogram them if they were HP Gbics. Steve
-----Original Message----- From: Jay R. Ashworth [mailto:jra () baylink com] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:32 PM To: nanog () nanog org Subject: OT: GBIC compatibility and pricing (was Managed, cheap,DC
power switches)
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:16:09PM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote:Jay R. Ashworth wrote:For what it's worth, I gave the sales rep what-for about the price,
and
he gave it back to me, telling me that Procurve switches will only accept Procurve(-compatible) SFP GBICs, which cost more, both
because
they're compatible, and because they're SFP.Recent Procurve switches only accept "rev B" modules; I have a
new-ish
switch that won't accept a pile of Finisar optics that did work in
older
HP switches. I don't know what the difference between "rev B" and
older
ones are, though.Specifically, that rep (Bill Billings) told me that a *firware
upgrade*
broke compatibility with the old GBICs, which *originally* worked, and he ended up eating nearly 300 of them at one point. But we're probably off topic now. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink
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Current thread:
- RE: Managed, cheap, DC power switches, (continued)
- RE: Managed, cheap, DC power switches Tim Sanderson (Jul 16)
- RE: Managed, cheap, DC power switches Paul Stewart (Jul 16)
- Re: Managed, cheap, DC power switches Patrick Giagnocavo (Jul 16)
- Re: Managed, cheap, DC power switches Beavis (Jul 16)
- RE: Managed, cheap, DC power switches Jason Gurtz (Jul 17)
- Re: Managed, cheap, DC power switches Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 17)
- Re: Managed, cheap, DC power switches Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 17)
- Re: Managed, cheap, DC power switches Seth Mattinen (Jul 17)
- Re: Managed, cheap, DC power switches Jeff Kell (Jul 17)
- OT: GBIC compatibility and pricing (was Managed, cheap, DC power switches) Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 17)
- RE: GBIC compatibility and pricing (was Managed, cheap, DC power switches) Steve Dalberg (Jul 17)
- Re: GBIC compatibility and pricing (was Managed, cheap, DC power switches) Hyunseog Ryu (Jul 17)
- Re: GBIC compatibility and pricing (was Managed, cheap, DC power switches) Kevin Oberman (Jul 17)
- Re: OT: GBIC compatibility and pricing (was Managed, cheap, DC power switches) Jay R. Ashworth (Jul 18)
- RE: Managed, cheap, DC power switches Paul Stewart (Jul 16)
- RE: Managed, cheap, DC power switches Tim Sanderson (Jul 16)
- RE: Managed, cheap, DC power switches Tim Sanderson (Jul 17)
- Re: Managed, cheap, DC power switches Matthew Crocker (Jul 17)