On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Saku Ytti wrote:
Yet optic vendors even give you USB eeprommer boxes, where you can
on-the-fly code your optics to fit another vendors router/switches, where
they are seen as official optics.
Possible reasons the market exists
1. Legally required by some customer contracts. Some customer requires 2nd
source?
2. Fear for anti-competitive behaviour?
3. They know some are ghetto enough to go with the copy-eeprom way of
thinking and want piece of the action and are selling crypto-keys to make
'official' optics?
4. Vendors don't often spin their own optics. Vendor C and J often use
optics from Agilent, Finisar, etc, which are just re-branded (official
label, different vendor ID programmed into the unit, etc.).
jms
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