[c-nsp] Nexus 5000 / Nexus 2000 SFP+ with LRM

[Daniel Roesen]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:34:05AM +0200, Marian ??urkovi?? wrote:
> LRM SFP+ is just part of the stuff you need. For LRM to work, the switch
> linecard must have appropriate EDC functionality. If it's not there, it simply
> won't work.

Interesting. Thanks.

> > On a similar topic, I'm still waiting for an explanation, why Cisco
> > doesn't support SR XFPs in SPA-1X10GE-L-V2 when used in uBR10k
> > systems... LR XFPs are fine though.
> 
> This is completely different situation, though. There's absolutely no reason
> why SR (or any other MSA-compliant XFP) shouldn't work there, so the whole story
> is that not enough customers asked for SR in this SPA.

Well, SR _are_ "supported" in SPA-1X10GE-L-V2 when used in CRS-1,
SCE8000 and ASR1000, just not uBR10k. Unfortunately I'm currently
lacking an "original" Cisco SR XFP to try wether it works technically.
Cisco SE claims IOS would reject the XFP.

Best regards,
Daniel

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