It boils down to a business case. In my travels we see a high failure rate -- higher than I'd like to see --, but $boss likes the price, and, as Jason pointed out below, for the price, it can be a "successful" business model. In a nutshell: For someone on a budget, they're great; buy spares. For someone who doesn't want to deal with outages, call-volume, hands tickets, truck-rolls, and has money to burn, there are better alternatives. On 9/20/19 2:41 PM, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
We have maybe 1:50 DOA, but they’re so cheap, we just throw them out because it’s not worth the RMA.
That said, I can’t remember the last time we’ve had any of these fail in the field, or have had any issues with variablity in TX/RX power. We have tens of thousands of these in the field, from 100Mb Bidi to 100G-LR and everything in between, including *WDM up to 80KM.
On Sep 20, 2019, at 8:31 AM, Nicholas Warren <nwarren@barryelectric.com> wrote:
Anyone have experience with fs.com's lasers? Are they reliable?