[c-nsp] DWDM SFPs?

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:54:03PM +0100, Tomasz Paszkowski wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 02:13:55PM -0600, Church, Chuck wrote:
> > Anyone,
> >  
> >     In the process of writing internal documentation for a migration to
> > 3560 and Sup720s, I noticed that DWDM gig ethernet SFPs don't seem to
> > exist, at least not directly from Cisco.  I am not just finding them, or
> > are they really not out there?  If that is the case, are there any
> > future plans to produce them?
> 
> They appear on Cisco website, but they're quite expensive. Insted of them
> I can offer you the same quality but lower priced items. I'am able
> to provide you GE SFPs (all avaliable wave lengths 1470 - 1610) and
> additionaly I have very cheap Cisco brand factory sealed items:
> 
> GLC-LH-SM (SFP LX) 260 $
> GLC-SX-MM (SFP SX) 240 $
> WS-G5486 (GBIC LX) 210 $
> WS-G5484 (GBIC SX) 200 $

A) Those are CWDM GBICs/SFPs, not DWDM GBICs/SFPs.

B) Spamming an operations list with parts for sale is a bad idea.

C) Be wary, there are a TON of fake Cisco optics (especially in CWDM) 
   coming out of asia and floating around the used markets right now. 
   Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they install 
   the GBIC innards inside the shell upside down and misspell 
   "transceiver" on the "cisco" label too.

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