[f-nsp] Dying GIG-Ports on jetcore bigirons

[gk at ax.tc]

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On Sunday 30 July 2006 23:31, Gunther Stammwitz wrote:
> > Even if everything checks out today, they can
> > start failing one by one tomorrow, and in 6 months you can
> > have a card with no working ports.
>
> Hi Rich,
> That's true. Those components are going to fail sooner or later and need to
> be replaced.
>
> > Foundry seems to have one of the worst problems in this area
> > by far, primarily with certain brands of optics used in early
> > production runs (I used to know which, but I've honestly
> > stopped caring). Other versions of the same cards can still
> > run forever, but you never know what you're going to get. If
> > you really care and you can work a soldering iron, it's cheap
> > and easy to replace those 1x9 transceivers, but personally
> > this stopped being worth my time compared to buying new
> > systems with 6x the density a long time ago. :)
>
> Can you tell me please what module I need to order and maybe where I can
> get it? I don't want to throw a whole card away only because of ONE broken
> port.
>
> > If you really must keep using (or at least doing new
> > deployments of) those things, do yourself a favor and buy
> > cards with modular optics like M4s and BxGs for a few bucks more.
>
> We have deployed a lot of those modules and I need to to get them replaced.
> The problem is that I need the GIGEs on the managementcard because all
> other slots are full so I need to get them fixed.
>
> I can't mix jetcore and ironcore but the M4s you were mentioning are an
> option. Are you absolutely sure that they are not affected by this problem?

I think Richard mention the M4 and BxG only because of their replaceable 
GBIC/mini-GBIC optics, so you lose not the whole board in the case of 
multiple port failures.

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Gerald
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