On 9/27/16 8:12 AM, Adam Vitkovsky wrote: >> Fredrik Korsbäck >> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 3:58 PM >> >> On 27/09/16 16:47, Adam Vitkovsky wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> What is the current stand in this matter? >>> Are 3rd party juniper compatible CFPs a viable alternative? >>> As it looks like no one is making CFP-SR10s, -are these dead/legacy? >>> -cause it doesn’t seem to be such a problem to find 3rd party 100G QSFP- >> SR4 –though not sure about the compatibility side of things. >> Most of the things i tried works fine. Flex, Fiberstore. etc. >> >> SR10 is a quite horrible standard so that's why no-one is making them :) SR10 >> is only available in the bulky CFP-transciever since you need to fit a >> internal >> gearbox to get 10 lanes out. If you can run with third-party why don't just >> do >> LR4 directly? So you can be backwards and frontwards compatible with >> whatever formfactor transciever you got on the other side. On 100G its only >> LR4 that's available across the board of all devices. >> > That's actually a very good point regarding the future compatibility. > I got scared by LR4 price tag around 10k as opposed to less than 1k for SR10. > But I see now that Fiberstore has SR4 for around 1k -not sure where's the > catch though. yeah, sr10 uses a 24 fiber mpo cable, it might have made sense inside a rack at one time,but it's not even a great way to de-multiplex 10gig ports respecting real-estate. > Thanks a bunch > > adam > > > > > Adam Vitkovsky > IP Engineer > > T: 0333 006 5936 > E: adam.vitkov...@gamma.co.uk > W: www.gamma.co.uk > > This is an email from Gamma Telecom Ltd, trading as “Gamma”. The contents of > this email are confidential to the ordinary user of the email address to > which it was addressed. This email is not intended to create any legal > relationship. No one else may place any reliance upon it, or copy or forward > all or any of it in any form (unless otherwise notified). If you receive this > email in error, please accept our apologies, we would be obliged if you would > telephone our postmaster on +44 (0) 808 178 9652 or email > postmas...@gamma.co.uk > > Gamma Telecom Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales, with > limited liability, with registered number 04340834, and whose registered > office is at 5 Fleet Place London EC4M 7RD and whose principal place of > business is at Kings House, Kings Road West, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 5BY. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This email has been scanned for email related threats and delivered safely > by Mimecast. > For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp >
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