[j-nsp] SFP Compatibility

[David Ball]

   I was speaking with someone from Foundry just this afternoon and
asked this very question.  They indicated that they had considered
doing this some time ago (forcing the use of Foundry SFPs), but first
polled some of their customer base for a reaction.  Not surprisingly,
it was overwhelmingly negative, so they decided against it.  That is
not to say that they won't do it in the future, and I suppose that
goes for any vendor.
  Sound advice from Kevin, about testing code upgrades with various
optics in the lab prior to production deployment to avoid being
bitten.

David


On 15/01/2008, Paul Civati <paul at xciv.org> wrote:
> Kevin Day <toasty at dragondata.com> wrote:
>
> > We escalated this as high as they'd let us. The reply from high up
> > was that they were sorry for the inconvenience, but there is no
> > workaround, and that it's for our own protection.
>
> I think this was brought about because they provide a lot of free
> lifetime replacement warranty (which is in itself a whole other
> story) with their networking products.
>
> It's very annoying that aside from not supporting non-HP SFPs they
> also prevent you from using any other vendor, even as an unsupported
> part (it's fairly easy to view the installed transceivers from the
> cli to verify what's installed).
>
> Anyway, getting very off-topic now..
>
> -Paul-
>
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