Re: OT Cheap SFP vendors

Features bring bugs. It's a fact of life. As for your other failures,
they all sound hardware related. :) Interesting.

-Hammer-

"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer

On 09/16/2011 04:34 PM, Networking Dude wrote:
> ISRs? I'm never so lucky, had a gazillion fan failures, power supply
> failures, and constant code bugs. They probably work great if your
> just slapping IPs and a routing protocol on them, but I do all sorts
> of black magic on mine. 7200 and up on the other hand seem to work great.
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:31 PM, David Bass <davidbass570_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:davidbass570_at_gmail.com>> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto:bhmccie_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >> www.cisco.com <http://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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