[c-nsp] Something I was thinking about whilst idle the other day.

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 02:00:37PM +0000, A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk wrote:
> just be thankful you CAN 'just plug' SFP modules into the
> CISCO kit - I've been dealing with other kit where the
> SFPs are fixed into the blades/devices and you have to 
> order to spec - no personal choice to change an SX with an LX 
> or GLC !

Nothing that Cisco didn't do in the past.  But it's much more profitable
for a vendor do build a blade without any optics and sell the optics at
an extra price :-)

(Also they only need to keep stock of a single item)

Alas, a 6724-GE-TX would be nice...  6748-GE-TX is way overkill for us in 
most locations, and a 6724-SFP plus 24 GLC-Ts looks quite stupid.

gert

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