[c-nsp] Third party optics

[Doug McIntyre]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 02:04:32PM -0400, harbor235 wrote:
> How are your organizations dealing with Cisco equipment and usage of third
> party optics?
>                           1) Cisco or "third party"?
>                            2) Cisco policy regarding third party components?
> 
> Is it worth the risk?

We have a few real Cisco part spares around in each datacenter.
Most optics are 3rd party. (FS)

If there is an issue with support (which does come up occasionally,
but certainly not every case), then we swap in a real Cisco optic part
and continue with the case.