[f-nsp] 3rd party optics

[Nick Hilliard]

On 14/04/2011 19:29, Niels Bakker wrote:
> At the risk of beating a dead horse: support for optics not sold by the
> vendor is vital to any serious business. Being locked in means you can
> toss your investment when your network changes even slightly.

Honestly, I've all but given up on this.  If vendors are going to force me 
to lie to the switches about SFF8472 eeproms in order to get DOM support, 
then I will lie and lie fluently.  I will tell the switches anything they 
want to hear and will feel no guilt.

The next item on my budget is a flexbox (http://www.flexoptix.net/).  Until 
then, my suppliers can provide pre-programmed transceivers in any flavour I 
want.

For the record, if there's anyone from Brocade listening, transceiver 
feature-hobbling is a pointless waste of time which directly creates 
customer dissatisfaction.  Please stop doing it.

Nick