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From: "Brandon Ross" <bross@pobox.com>
She has sold many thousands of optics, all with lifetime warrantys. Many of them to very large and clueful organizations, many of whom are represented here on NANOG. Of those thousands sold, I can count less than 20 that have been returned.
I've also worked for VARs in the past, and work with several of them today, selling new OEM branded optics. I've found a MUCH higher percentage of OEM optics having to be returned to the manufacturer.
Of course, take my report with a grain of salt.
Not at all: No one is gonna stop buying Cisco cause a Cisco optic died. Third-party manufacturers don't have that built in cushion, so it's not unreasonable that they might pay the higher degree of attention to reliability that your off-the-cuff statistics imply. You do want to go third-party, though, not fourth-party or below. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274