And to add to it here's a Cisco SFP in a Juniper chassis showing a serial number that looks suspiciously like a Finisar serial number. PIC 1 REV 04 711-021270 AR0209216364 4x GE SFP Xcvr 0 NON-JNPR FNS0932K03B SFP-SX -b On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu> wrote:
On 6/17/2010 10:40 AM, Andrew Thrift wrote:
Another major negative with the HP gear for us is that their switches only support SFP/SFP+ modules manufactured by HP, so those SFP+ Twin-AX cables that came with your Dell/IBM Blade chassis will be useless to connect to your HP Switches, to add insult HP often sell their own modules at 3x the price of an equivalent module from say Extreme or Juniper.
Very true (and you thought Cisco was proud of their branded optics...).
Apparently the HP ink cartridge marketing department is in cahoots with their network optics counterparts :-)
Jeff
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