[c-nsp] Non Cisco SFP

[Jared Mauch]

I was offering something for the super-geeks :)

at $dayjob we purchase from champion one, but have also tested other optics from OSI hardware and others.

I’ve even heard of good luck from fiberstore.com as well, which is super-cheap.

- Jared

> On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:46 AM, Matthew Crocker <matthew at corp.crocker.com> wrote:
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> You could buy http://www.flexoptix.net/en/flexbox-v3-transceiver-programmer.html and save the rPi headaches.   I haven’t used this but it does look interesting.
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> Or,  you could just go here: http://approvedoptics.com/   Cisco, Juniper every SFP, XFP, SFP+ i’ve ordered has worked 100% and they are priced right.
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>> On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:31 AM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.Nether.net> wrote:
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>>> On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:16 AM, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 03:29:41PM +0000, Rick Martin wrote:
>>>> I am glad to see this thread, we are on the cusp of making the plunge into aftermarket optics 
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>>> Whatever "aftermarket" optics are - I would not go and by *used* optics,
>>> because that's about the only thing in modern hardware that truly ages,
>>> aka "optics burn out over time".
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>> Agreed, general use optics shouldn’t cost you more than $300, and that is being quite generous.
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>> If you wanted to program your own optics, apparently you can get one of these new raspberry pis:
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>> http://eoinpk.blogspot.com/2014/05/raspberry-pi-and-programming-eeproms-on.html
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>> It includes a link at the bottom for how to program the optics to be ‘cisco compatible’.
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>> - Jared
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