Hi Jeff , we used an ex optic in a qfx and it was ok - also noticed the part number is the same..... Didnt realise there was any lock ??
On 25 April 2012 07:21, Jeff Wheeler <j...@inconcepts.biz> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Skeeve Stevens > <skeeve+juniper...@eintellego.net> wrote: > > Juniper are really pissing me off in regards to their SFP's. > > Agreed. > > > Is there ANY actual difference between these SFP's? They are all the same > > price from the distributor but they all have different availability - see > > number above for example from one of my disties. > > Yes. The QFX3500 actually requires QFX-specific SFP/SFP+ and even the > Juniper OEM ones for other Juniper products will not function in a > QFX3500, at least as of 11.3. A little bird told me that they will > remove the optics lock-in sometime this year. The sooner this > happens, the better. > > I, too, am not willing to wait for Juniper to supply me with SFPs, > especially since Juniper is honestly pretty bad at supply chain / > logistics, and does not even offer colored SFPs for some of these > products. Cost is not the overriding concern here, it is > AVAILABILITY. > > We literally shipped a QFX3500 to a third-party optics vendor's lab > and had them figure out how to re-flash generic optics so they would > work in it. This because our SE gave us an incorrect answer about > whether or not it would work with generics -- turns out it doesn't. > One of my clients was so angry about this that they returned some of > their QFX3500s and got their money back over this, and bought another > manufacturer's product instead. > > I can only guess that the reason Juniper has different SKUs for the > optics for different product families is that this is the mechanism > they use to credit the optics revenue to the correct product group, > and this must be why the QFX won't work with Juniper optics from other > product lines. > > -- > Jeff S Wheeler <j...@inconcepts.biz> > Sr Network Operator / Innovative Network Concepts > > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp