Re: OT Cheap SFP vendors

I certainly have seen it be a cost issue as well as fiber cables. Almost always it is due to someone getting the wrong count or not getting them in the budget initially. As we see just by the question - sfps are more of a commodity item than 6509s.

Thanks,

Travis

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From: "-Hammer-" <bhmccie_at_gmail.com>
To: "David Bass" <davidbass570_at_gmail.com>
Cc: "Networking Dude" <ccie_at_routefilter.com>, "ccielab_at_groupstudy.com" <ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
Subject: OT Cheap SFP vendors
Date: Fri, Sep 16, 2011 2:33 pm

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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