[c-nsp] GLC-LH-SM vs SFP-GE-L

[Peter Rathlev]

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 12:51 +0000, Dan Holme wrote:
> On 17 November 2010 00:05, Peter Rathlev <peter at rathlev.dk> wrote:
> > Yeah. Sometimes it's just hard to understand what extremely rigorous
> > testing scheme means that 6500/SXI doesn't support SFPs but 7600/SRD
> > does. If they tested new IOS releases that well we wouldn't have half
> > the problems we all write about would we? ;-)
> 
> Did something optic-support-related change specifically in SXI?

Nothing I know of, but SXI is the most recent 6500 release, and I'd
imagine it would be comparable with SRD on basic hardware support. If
you can insert an SFP in a WS-X6724-SFP LC in a 7600 chassis with a
Sup720 then why not in a WS-X6724-SFP LC in a 6500 chassis with a
Sup720?

I know that software testing is both important and time consumin. I just
assumed that modularization would mean that when the basic hardware is
the same and just software differs things like transceiver support would
be general. Unless Cisco competes with itself in a non-pretty manner I
must be wrong.

-- 
Peter