Re: OT Cheap SFP vendors

I guess if I was building a home lab and it had to be on the cheap I
would deviate from Cisco. But I've never had a customer come to me and
say "Hey, On my 75K 6509 can you skimp on the SFPs?" I just don't see
the logic in a prod environment. But I'm not saying it's wrong. I just
don't see it.

Now, there is nothing more fun than unwrapping your new 6509 with 4 or 5
line cards and a few hundred SFPs and having to unwrap EACH and EVERY
ONE because Cisco has no concept of bulk packaging. Thank God for junior
staff....

-Hammer-

"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer

On 09/16/2011 04:31 PM, David Bass wrote:
> Actually, they charge a lot more then that, but they're worth it.
>
> Maybe I'm lucky, but have had very few issues with them and have had datacenters with thousands of them deployed...
>
> Crazy when you place a couple hundred k order that's just SFPs...
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Networking Dude<ccie_at_routefilter.com> wrote:
>
>
>> hahahaha! no. Cisco charges up to 200 bucks for some of their SFPs, which
>> are the same as the 22 dollar ones coming out of China. It's just a matter
>> of finding which Chinese companies sells good ones.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:41 PM, -Hammer-<bhmccie_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> www.cisco.com?
>>>
>>> -Hammer-
>>>
>>> "I was a normal American nerd"
>>> -Jack Herer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/16/2011 03:39 PM, Networking Dude wrote:
>>>
>>>> I need some reliable SFPs. Bought a crap load of 1000-base T ones about
>>>>
>>> 22$
>>>
>>>> a pop, and they are crap. Machined poorly, high DOA rate. Anyone know
>>>>
>>> where
>>>
>>>> I can get some good batches from a US vendor on the cheap?
>>>>
>>>>
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