[j-nsp] Juniper SFP's

[junos fordummies]

Hi Jeff , we used an ex optic in a qfx and it was ok - also noticed the
part number is the same..... Didnt realise there was any lock ??

On 25 April 2012 07:21, Jeff Wheeler <jsw at inconcepts.biz> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Skeeve Stevens
> <skeeve+junipernsp at eintellego.net> wrote:
> > Juniper are really pissing me off in regards to their SFP's.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > Is there ANY actual difference between these SFP's? They are all the same
> > price from the distributor but they all have different availability - see
> > number above for example from one of my disties.
>
> Yes.  The QFX3500 actually requires QFX-specific SFP/SFP+ and even the
> Juniper OEM ones for other Juniper products will not function in a
> QFX3500, at least as of 11.3.  A little bird told me that they will
> remove the optics lock-in sometime this year.  The sooner this
> happens, the better.
>
> I, too, am not willing to wait for Juniper to supply me with SFPs,
> especially since Juniper is honestly pretty bad at supply chain /
> logistics, and does not even offer colored SFPs for some of these
> products.  Cost is not the overriding concern here, it is
> AVAILABILITY.
>
> We literally shipped a QFX3500 to a third-party optics vendor's lab
> and had them figure out how to re-flash generic optics so they would
> work in it.  This because our SE gave us an incorrect answer about
> whether or not it would work with generics -- turns out it doesn't.
> One of my clients was so angry about this that they returned some of
> their QFX3500s and got their money back over this, and bought another
> manufacturer's product instead.
>
> I can only guess that the reason Juniper has different SKUs for the
> optics for different product families is that this is the mechanism
> they use to credit the optics revenue to the correct product group,
> and this must be why the QFX won't work with Juniper optics from other
> product lines.
>
> --
> Jeff S Wheeler <jsw at inconcepts.biz>
> Sr Network Operator  /  Innovative Network Concepts
>
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