Re: sfps from fs dot com

[Alain Hebert <ahebert () pubnix net>]

    Hi,

    Back last year, I experienced less than expected reliability with 
QFX and their QSFPs.

    We prefer to use optic.ca since they're a few minutes from our DC's 
and will respond within the day, with platform and firmware changes, 
which we can test in lab before shipping to our remotes.

    The price difference is made reducing downtime in our case.

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Alain Hebert                                ahebert () pubnix net
PubNIX Inc.
50 boul. St-Charles
P.O. Box 26770     Beaconsfield, Quebec     H9W 6G7
Tel: 514-990-5911  http://www.pubnix.net    Fax: 514-990-9443

On 2019-09-20 08:54, Bryan Holloway wrote:
> It boils down to a business case.
>
> In my travels we see a high failure rate -- higher than I'd like to 
> see --, but $boss likes the price, and, as Jason pointed out below, 
> for the price, it can be a "successful" business model.
>
> In a nutshell:
>
> For someone on a budget, they're great; buy spares.
>
> For someone who doesn't want to deal with outages, call-volume, hands 
> tickets, truck-rolls, and has money to burn, there are better 
> alternatives.
>
>
> On 9/20/19 2:41 PM, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> > We have maybe 1:50 DOA, but they’re so cheap, we just throw them out 
> > because it’s not worth the RMA.
> >
> > That said, I can’t remember the last time we’ve had any of these fail 
> > in the field, or have had any issues with variablity in TX/RX power.  
> > We have tens of thousands of these in the field, from 100Mb Bidi to 
> > 100G-LR and everything in between, including *WDM up to 80KM.
> >
> > > On Sep 20, 2019, at 8:31 AM, Nicholas Warren 
> > > <nwarren () barryelectric com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Anyone have experience with fs.com's lasers? Are they reliable?