[j-nsp] Juniper SFP's

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my SE in our local US office told me that juniper do this to "claw back R&D
costs". Now that may be hearsay but it certainly makes sense on how they
position their different SFP's and prices. I was a Juniper advocate back in
the late 90's up until mid naughties, but now they are losing the plot. It
was inevitable they would go down the cisco route in attitude and pricing.
Shame really.

J4D

On 30 April 2012 15:47, Keegan Holley <keegan.holley at sungard.com> wrote:

> +1 :)
> I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but are they different
> enough to warrant all the different part numbers?  How about a universal
> SFP that works across similar products.  I can't comment on the others but
> I've seen the EX and MX/M SFP's interchanged.  More often than not it
> happens by accident.  Juniper adds to the fun by not printing the part
> number on most of them.
>
>
> 2012/4/24 Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+junipernsp at eintellego.net>
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > <rant>
> >
> > Juniper are really pissing me off in regards to their SFP's.
> >
> > As an example:
> >
> > CTP-SFP-1GE-SX (0)
> > EX-SFP-1GE-SX (163)
> > JX-SFP-1GE-SX (2)
> > QFX-SFP-1GE-SX (5)
> > SRX-SFP-1GE-SX (4)
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I recently deployed some MX80, EX4200 and SRX240 and had to order
> different
> > SFP's for them all.. and the SRX one took ages...
> >
> > There is likely to be no difference, but will JTAC tell me to get lost
> if I
> > use an EX one in an SRX or MX or vice versa?
> >
> > *Frustrated*
> >
> > Does anyone have experience with the compatibility of the generics?
> > Agilestair or so on?  I really am happy to sell genuine Juniper SFP's,
> but
> > why the hell are there different codes for each one?  Why am I waiting
> for
> > stock for 3 weeks for an SRX one when they have 163 EX ones.
> >
> > </rant>
> >
> > Have a nice day ;-)
> >
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