[j-nsp] QFX3500 optics lock?

[OBrien, Will]

I'd make darn sure that Juniper knows that this is an issue for you.
I'm half torn on the optics issue - I can half understand the argument for certified optics, but I've also been in the position of being short on 'blessed' optics while having other vendors hardware on hand.

With a sfp+ to sfp+ cable, there isn't an excuse for this - It's all copper and it's a friggin network port. Eesh.

That said, even cisco does this with the unsupported optics command.


On Jan 7, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Brandon Ross wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Phil Mayers wrote:
> 
>> The device must support generic / unbranded transceivers. Any device which prevents use of, or restricts features based on transceiver vendor will be immediately disqualified.
> 
> I'm very glad to see people doing this in their procurement.  I'm also happy to see that a majority of the RFPs that I see, mostly BTOP ones, also include some sort of requirement for support of 3rd party optics.
> 
> Preventing 3rd party optics from working in the QFX immediately disqualifies it from a majority of the new network builds I see and I would never recommend a product to my customers that won't work with 3rd party optics.
> 
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