On Aug 20, 2013, at 10:01 AM, Tim Durack <tdur...@gmail.com> wrote: > The vendor-locked optics issue cause more trouble than it is worth. There > really needs to be some kind of "aftermarket" ruling on network equipment, > something along the lines of:
I've had interoperability issues with first party optics with first party equipment that isn't seen with 3rd party. I do wish more people would put pressure on their vendors on this topic. Simple text in your RFP/RFI requiring all SFF-8472 fields to be usable, sticking their "stuff" in their part of the EEPROM, but basing operations on the MSA fields not their own elements. - jared
