[c-nsp] Cheap 10G between 7600 and Procurve 5406zl

[Phil Mayers]

On 17/03/10 10:35, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>> It would be good if Cisco were to adopt an official, consistent,
>> cross-platform position on non-Cisco transceivers, and one which was
>> favourable towards said transceivers provided they are in-spec for that
>> transceiver platform.
>
> I doubt you'll get anything other than "not supported", since Cisco
> makes too much money on transceivers. They're not about to give up
> on that lightly.

Sure. I mean, god forbid they make their money by innovation and 
competition. Much easier to push a transceiver design where they can 
blame the lack of interop on "bus interface issues" and "the cheap 
transceivers lie about EDC it's not our fault".