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Re: Arista unqualified SFP
From: Tim Jackson <jackson.tim () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 21:14:47 -0500
On Aug 18, 2016 7:42 AM, "Nick Hilliard" <nick () foobar org> wrote:
It is always better to clarify this sort of thing with the account management team before purchasing, and preferably have it in email or writing.
Sometimes you inherit bad situations... The (bad) solution is to program your own optics to match Arista ones so their switches can't tell the difference.. It's not hard, but a lot of the time it's out of the normal reach of a lot of customers. Flexoptix fixed that problem, but they're still priced way too high vs the OEMs that supply to them.. It's still terribly frustrating to deal with this issue in 2016. It's a desperate money grab from less informed customers. Arista should really stop this bad practice. I'd urge anybody buying any gear to make sure it can accept any optic meeting whatever MSA standard optics that it's able to have plugged into it. -- Tim
Current thread:
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP, (continued)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Ryan, Spencer (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Mark Tinka (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Tim Jackson (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Mark Tinka (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Nick Hilliard (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Mark Tinka (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Fredrik Korsbäck (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Ethan (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Stanislaw (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP John A. Kilpatrick (Aug 20)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Tim Jackson (Aug 20)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Ricky Beam (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Eric Kuhnke (Aug 18)
- RE: Arista unqualified SFP Ryan DiRocco (Aug 19)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Alain Hebert (Aug 19)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Eric Kuhnke (Aug 19)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Denys Fedoryshchenko (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Mark Tinka (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Fredrik Korsbäck (Aug 18)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Ryan Gelobter (Aug 23)
- Re: Arista unqualified SFP Ryan, Spencer (Aug 23)