[[nsp] Cisco & Nortel GBIC Compatible

[David J. Hughes]

I've seen situations where 3rd party SX gbics worked fine in
a 6509 but not an LX from the same manufacturer didn't. It's
pretty much suck it and see.


Bambi
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Matti Saarinen
> Sent: Monday, 12 July 2004 5:48 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [[nsp] Cisco & Nortel GBIC Compatible
> 
> Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se> writes:
> 
> > There has been rumours about this for a long time, but I have only
> > seen key-lock to Cisco-only optics to work on SFP and Xenpaks, never
> > GBICs.
> 
>  I hope the information I got from the (now ex-) Cisco rep is a
>  rumour. Actually, I asked will they support third-party SFPs and the
>  answer was no and he also mentioned about plans to key-lock GBICs as
>  well.
> 
>  At my previous employers network we used third-party GBICs on Cat
>  6509 (native IOS) and on Cat 2950 without any problems. On the other
>  hand, Cat 2948 didn't accept any other than Cisco GBICs and not even
>  all of them.
> 
>  Side note: The vendor from which we bought the third-party GBICs said
>  that they can manufacture SFPs which will for examaple be recognised
>  as Cisco ones by Cisco equipment.
> 
>  Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> - Matti -
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