Re: Aftermarket switches that were manufactured in any sort of quantity?

[Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 at 21:59, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com> wrote:

> With all due respect, without sharing NDA protected information about the specific quantity and model numbers of FS 
> switches I have personal experience with in a certain network, there are very valid reasons to have significant 
> concerns about the stability and feature set of the operating system that ships on them.

Perhaps if you cannot offer context, then the message of 'fs is bad'
is best shared elsewhere.

> There is a reason they are abnormally cheap, in exactly the same way that FS transceivers which are literally the 
> cheapest 1Gbps and 10Gbps OOK optics you can "Add to cart" and buy online are the cheapest transceivers you can buy 
> on the market.

They're not really particularly cheap, they are 'market rate', you can
get 'market rate' from multiple suppliers, directly from manufacturers
too. They are only cheaper than most EU+US resellers, that's about it.

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