[j-nsp] XFP and XENPAK

[Ruslan A. Magomedov]

Hello,

Thanks, will be able to try in a day or two

Best regards,
Ruslan

Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:37:30PM +0300, Ruslan A. Magomedov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Did somebody try to have LW XENPAK working in 10Gig Ethernet PIC. I am 
>> asking
>> this question generally because LW is not mentioned in the PIC specification
>>
>> http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/hardware/m-series/m320/m320-pic/10-gigabit-ethernet-pic-with-xenpak-m320-router.html#ten-ge-xenpak
> 
> With very few exceptions (generally caused by bugs, really poorly
> written code, or vendor locking gone awry), XENPAKs and other pluggable
> optics are are universally supported in any format for any device which
> accepts them.
> 
> To Juniper's credit, I can't say that I've ever seen them fail to 
> support the basic functionality of a pluggable optic, or play any kind 
> of vendor locking games. They probably just don't sell LW XENPAKs 
> directly, and thus have no reason to list it as supported or unsupported 
> in documentation. From that webpage, even in versions of code which 
> predated "support" for the SR or ZR optics, the only thing that probably 
> wasn't "supported" was displaying the name of the part correctly in the 
> CLI.
>