On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Robert Juric wrote: >> They may have changed their policy, but I believe Juniper only supports >> Juniper optics in their equipment. Others will work, but if you want full >> support from Juniper I suggest you talk to your account team. > > They also don't support cables, but no one expects them to. Why does > there seem to be an expectation that they should support any products that > they don't sell? > > Keep in mind that "unsupported" just means they won't fix them if they
> break, not that the rest of your system is now somehow tainted. All too often "unsupported" means "known to break things in weird ways, we have no idea why and we gave up". Consequently, if you have to ask management for a load of cash to buy new equipment to fix a problem (e.g. hundreds of SFP modules) "unsupported" means your job may be on the line. -- Regards, Andreas Lund (storage/backup/network/databases) Oyeren IKT -- http://www.oikt.no Servicedesk: +47 6383 5200 Direct: tlf.+47 6383 5287, mob.+47 900 77 162 _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp