[j-nsp] 3rd party juniper compatible CFPs SR optics

[Adam Vitkovsky]

> Fredrik Korsbäck
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 3:58 PM
>
> On 27/09/16 16:47, Adam Vitkovsky wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > What is the current stand in this matter?
> > Are 3rd party juniper compatible CFPs a viable alternative?
> > As it looks like no one is making CFP-SR10s, -are these dead/legacy?
> > -cause it doesn’t seem to be such a problem to find 3rd party 100G QSFP-
> SR4 –though not sure about the compatibility side of things.
> >
>
> Most of the things i tried works fine. Flex, Fiberstore. etc.
>
> SR10 is a quite horrible standard so that's why no-one is making them :) SR10
> is only available in the bulky CFP-transciever since you need to fit a internal
> gearbox to get 10 lanes out. If you can run with third-party why don't just do
> LR4 directly? So you can be backwards and frontwards compatible with
> whatever formfactor transciever you got on the other side. On 100G its only
> LR4 that's available across the board of all devices.
>
That's actually a very good point regarding the future compatibility.
I got scared by LR4 price tag around 10k as opposed to less than 1k for SR10.
But I see now that Fiberstore has SR4 for around 1k -not sure where's the catch though.

Thanks a bunch

adam




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