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Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP


From: Bill Blackford <bblackford () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:16:40 -0700

And to add to it here's a Cisco SFP in a Juniper chassis showing a
serial number that looks suspiciously like a Finisar serial number.

 PIC 1          REV 04   711-021270   AR0209216364      4x GE SFP
    Xcvr 0                NON-JNPR     FNS0932K03B       SFP-SX


-b

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () utc edu> wrote:
On 6/17/2010 10:40 AM, Andrew Thrift wrote:
 Another major negative with the HP gear for us is that their switches
only support SFP/SFP+ modules manufactured by HP, so those SFP+
Twin-AX cables that came with your Dell/IBM Blade chassis will be
useless to connect to your HP Switches, to add insult HP often sell
their own modules at 3x the price of an equivalent module from say
Extreme or Juniper.

Very true (and you thought Cisco was proud of their branded optics...).

Apparently the HP ink cartridge marketing department is in cahoots with
their network optics counterparts :-)

Jeff





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Bill Blackford
Network Engineer

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