[c-nsp] Non Cisco SFP

[Rick Martin]

 I am glad to see this thread, we are on the cusp of making the plunge into aftermarket optics and have been looking for anything to tip the scale one way or the other. I had a chat with a Gartner fellow a couple of weeks ago and the outcome of that call did not tip the scales for me. This thread is providing me with great information - thanks!

 We are also looking at aftermarket DAC or Twinax cables, what has been your experience with those in a Cisco environment? We have had a couple dozen Dell DAC's connecting Dell servers to HP 5900's with good success but have not tried any in our Nexus environment.

Thanks!

Rick Martin
Network Architect
State of Arkansas, Department of Information Systems
(501) 682-4037



-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Phil Mayers
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 6:36 AM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Non Cisco SFP

On 02/02/2015 12:02, Warren Jackson wrote:
> Highly recommend you do not use this in production.

Disagree, strongly.

Vendor transceivers are racket, a scam, hugely inflated and price, and the practice of transceiver locking is enormously anti-competitive, not to mention operationally tedious.

I recommend people buy transceivers from good 3rd party vendors, and tell the equipment vendors to take a hike with their "vendor" parts.
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