Second that. The more people buy 3rd party (coded if you want) the better. Vendors only listen to sales.
On Tuesday, November 19, 2013, Jared Mauch wrote: > > On Nov 19, 2013, at 10:59 AM, Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > On 19/11/2013 13:54, Christina Klam wrote: > >> We have been running 6.2(2) since the summer. In the last six months, I > >> had to return some third-party "Cisco compatible" twinax cables because > >> they were "Invalid" on our M2s. And, I just had to swap out some > >> official Cisco SFP-10G-LR because they were "version 1" which also do > >> not work with our M2 cards. > > > > Can't say I'm surprised. If Cisco is going to do stupid customer-hating > > stuff like locking transceivers, they ought to expect to shoot themselves > > in the foot from time to time. Pity that it's the customers who end > taking > > the bullet though. > > The failure of Cisco to support their own first party optics correctly is > a significant problem we have faced. We’ve done many rounds with them on > this topic and it’s not gone well for them. The optics folks have been > borderline arrogant and ignorant of the software-side problems that exist. > > My suggestion: Speak with your wallet and discontinue purchasing them. > You can save lots of $$$. When you type “show” commands on a device, make > sure you map them back to the SFF-8472 MSA fields. If the software > platform doesn’t display all of them, insist it’s basic support of the > optics and their optics and software are substandard. > > Regarding Twinax cables. You really shouldn’t need these as the optics > are fairly inexpensive via 3rd party, and you can use a fiber cable for > “cheap” as well. > > Look at places like monoprice, champion one, osihardware and many others > out there. Most places have better warranty support than Cisco with paid > support in my experience. > > - Jared > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net <javascript:;> > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > -- Tim:> _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/