And to add to it here's a Cisco SFP in a Juniper chassis showing a serial number that looks suspiciously like a Finisar serial number.
PIC 1 REV 04 711-021270 AR0209216364 4x GE SFP Xcvr 0 NON-JNPR FNS0932K03B SFP-SX -b On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Jeff Kell <jeff-k...@utc.edu> wrote: > On 6/17/2010 10:40 AM, Andrew Thrift wrote: >> Another major negative with the HP gear for us is that their switches >> only support SFP/SFP+ modules manufactured by HP, so those SFP+ >> Twin-AX cables that came with your Dell/IBM Blade chassis will be >> useless to connect to your HP Switches, to add insult HP often sell >> their own modules at 3x the price of an equivalent module from say >> Extreme or Juniper. > > Very true (and you thought Cisco was proud of their branded optics...). > > Apparently the HP ink cartridge marketing department is in cahoots with > their network optics counterparts :-) > > Jeff > > -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.....