[c-nsp] Non Cisco SFP

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Warren Jackson wrote:

> Sure, no problem!
>
> 2)  Cost.  If you buy through a Cisco gold provider then you are going to
> get a good price on the optics, enough to where the difference pays off in
> support, as these can been wrapped in through your smartnet converage.  If
> you have optics from another vendor you are dealing with their support and
> Cisco support, keeps things simple. Makes it worth paying the bit extra you
> would pay.  We aren't talking about thousands of dollars difference in
> price here.

The difference in 10G optic costs can be substantial.

> 3)  Who?  Which SFP manufacturer(s) would you recommend besides Cisco?

As far as I know, Cisco doesn't spin their own optics.  They usually buy 
from someone like Finisar and either burn a Cisco vendor ID on them, or 
have the manufacturer do this as part of their contract.

> 4)  Several of the Cisco SFP's provide the show tranceiver telemetry that
> aid in troubeshooting the physical layer, which you won't get with the
> off-market brand tranceivers.

Unless those transceivers support DOM.

jms