On a Juniper EX4600 running Junos 14.1X53-D27.3 the poster inserted a non-certified 1G single-mode WDM (BiDi) SFP, 20 km, TX 1550 / RX 1310 nm with DDM, into ge-0/0/1. The interface never appeared: show interfaces returned error: device ge-0/0/1 not found, and the log recorded XCVR: Unit 1, Fibre…
The poster wanted to run a link bidirectionally over one strand of single-mode fiber on a Cisco Small Business 300 series switch. Cisco's SMB catalogue lists the MFEBX1 100 Mb BiDi SFP (transmitting at 1310 nm and receiving at 1550 nm), but the poster could not find a Cisco part number for the…
On a Cisco Nexus N9K-C93180YC-FX, QSFP-40G-SR-BD BiDi modules are not detected at all: nothing appears in the logs when they are inserted and they are absent from 'show interface transceiver', whereas QSFP-40GE-LR4 modules in the same ports are logged and listed normally. Several QSFP-40G-SR-BD…