[j-nsp] Sources for SFP+ optics

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Saku Ytti wrote:

> Yet optic vendors even give you USB eeprommer boxes, where you can
> on-the-fly code your optics to fit another vendors router/switches, where
> they are seen as official optics.
>
> Possible reasons the market exists
>
> 1. Legally required by some customer contracts. Some customer requires 2nd
> source?
>
> 2. Fear for anti-competitive behaviour?
>
> 3. They know some are ghetto enough to go with the copy-eeprom way of
> thinking and want piece of the action and are selling crypto-keys to make
> 'official' optics?

4. Vendors don't often spin their own optics.  Vendor C and J often use 
optics from Agilent, Finisar, etc, which are just re-branded (official 
label, different vendor ID programmed into the unit, etc.).

jms