Did you not review their independently verified data on failure rate? Neil
Sent from my iPhone > On 17 Aug 2018, at 11:09, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > I've been trying out FS transceivers. Nothing fancy, just 10Gb LR SFP+ > for data centre interconnects etc. Out of 8 deployed there have been > 2 where the link has failed, then the reported Tx power from DOM has > shown as -40.0 dBm - one shortly after deploying, one after ~2 months. > Worse still it's intermittent, they have come back to life afterwards. > fs support think this is faulty modules rather than a switch problem. > > I wondered if anyone else is seeing a similar failure mode, or what > sort of failure rate you're seeing? (FS themselves are claiming <1.5% > but then they would, wouldn't they..) > > Should I just buy flexoptix? They are over twice the price though it > doesn't take many train tickets to London to cover that .. > >
