Re: Experience Brocade ICX7750 and other vendor SFP

[Olivier Benghozi <olivier.benghozi () wifirst fr>]

I don't know if ICX behave like the FCX, but on those equipments, other_vendor_SFPs work perfectly (Finisar, Skylane 
CWDM 70km, at least).
However the brocade won't let you use "optical-monitor" on them if they are "standard coded", so you won't be able to 
check optical values (tx/rx dBm levels and so on). Having the other_vendor_SFP coded as a "Brocade SFP" will do the 
trick however.

> Le 31 mars 2015 à 14:44, Joe McLeod <jmcleod () musfiber net> a écrit :
>
> +1 on Brocade ICX 6610 with other vendor's optics.  We're using the 6610's as aggregation route/switches with a mix 
> of Cisco, Alcatel, and 3rd party optics (one of which is a 10G BiDi) and have had no issues.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Jordan Medlen
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 8:09 AM
> To: Florian Figula
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> Subject: Re: Experience Brocade ICX7750 and other vendor SFP
>
> I use the ICX 6610's which I believe run the same code train. I use other vendor optics to light 3 spans of dark 
> fiber, one of which is 60km, so I have Axiom 80km optics in production there. I have had no issues. I also use the 
> VDX series switches with other vendor optics and no issues.
>
> Jordan Medlen
> Network Engineer
> Bisk Education 
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> > On Mar 31, 2015, at 05:55, Florian Figula <florian () figula de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > does anyone have experiences regarding Brocade ICX7750 and other vendors SFP.
> >
> > Information will be helpful for planing new infrastructure and costs.
> >
> > Thanks to all!