[j-nsp] LX SFP Question

[joe mcguckin]

I recently saw an interesting article that claimed that Cisco consumed  
60-65% of the SFP market and thus was able to
set pricing. Supposedly, Cisco pays about $25 for an SX SFP. Optical  
modules represent one of the (if not the highest) margin product
in their catalog.

No wonder they want to vendor lock the optics...


Joe McGuckin
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On Sep 25, 2009, at 8:00 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:18:44AM -0400, Paul Stewart wrote:
>> Thanks to everyone for the response.
>>
>> I did want to add one last thing to the comment below regarding " you
>> get what you pay for".  We pay just over 10X the price for Juniper
>> authentic SFP's to date compared to generic.  In the past 10 years
>> I've had exactly 2 generic SFP's fail in the Cisco world.  With this
>> substantial price increase to Juniper authentic why wouldn't they
>> build in dB meters in their SFP's?
>
> Remember all the problem caused by them shipping REs for m7i/m10i with
> only notebook rated (4 hour use per day) hard-drives rather than  
> server
> rated (24 hours use per day) drives, for a cost savings of ~$25? :)
>
> 1GE LX is the magic line where they make some slightly cheaper optics
> that don't include DOM, for every other product they don't even bother
> making it without. The price difference is probably about $10 on the
> wholesale side.
>
> http://www.finisar.com/optical_modules_2
>
> Notice the only GE product available without DOM support?
>
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