Re: OT Cheap SFP vendors

OK OK I'm backing off. :) It was just funny to see you asking about
cheap hardware while venting about hardware failures in the same thread.
As I said, to each their own. Have a good weekend....

-Hammer-

"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer

On 09/16/2011 04:47 PM, Networking Dude wrote:
> Yea, hardware, all covered by smartnet. Quit picking on me :P Yea,
> that's the magic of Cisco, and the downfall. The support everything,
> but don't support everything very well. Lots of bugs, at least on the
> enterprise class equipment. Larger platforms I still love. I work in a
> small ISP, so use Cisco boxes in the DSLAM (don't try it at home
> kids). I would go redback if I had the budget. I'd use small juniper
> boxes if they supported PPPoE servers. So am stick with LinkCisco at
> the moment. Hopefully with Cisco ditching all of their regarded
> products like the flip, they can start making real routers again.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:38 PM, -Hammer- <bhmccie_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:bhmccie_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 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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