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

[Jared Mauch]

On Apr 23, 2014, at 4:44 AM, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:

> 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.

We have found this as well, one of our suppliers actually says "we don't recommend
ours, but we do sell them if you want ..."

- Jared