[c-nsp] ASR-1K and 3rd party sfps

[Saku Ytti]

On (2014-04-22 21:50 -0400), Charles Sprickman wrote:

Hi,

> We have an ASR-1002-X that's been living at home until it goes off to the colo on Friday.  I've been trying to learn all the quirks of the platform and get some of the platform-specific stuff done before bringing in the bulk of the config from the router it's replacing.  In the middle of working on the management port/vrf issues, I decided I should verify some behavior by bringing up the sole copper SFP in the unit (gig 0/0/1 in my case).

I'm unable to help you, but my observation is that cuSFP's have relatively
poor hit/miss ratio compared to optical SFPs. It takes practice and skill to
source bad optical SFP, hard to do by accident. But sourcing cuSFP which won't
work on your platform is very easy, it might be prudent to pay bit premium on
cuSFP and single source them when functioning is found and to prepare to test
several during initial deployment.

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