The poster had free thrid-party SFP/SFP+ samples that worked on Extreme switches and asked whether to buy genuine or third-party modules. A respondent reported that on a new X620 a third-party SFP+ linked but its DDMI data could not be read, and that Extreme provides no help for problems involving…
We run a couple of IBM Power boxes next to a small SAN, and I am trying to write down a sane spares policy before the next hardware maintenance renewal. The part I cannot pin down is the transceiver itself: on some adapters it looks like a field-replaceable part in its own right, on others a…
I am specifying a fibre ring for a customer's plant network and the switch choice is already fixed: Moxa EDS-518A. The BOM went out with generic 1G optics, because our stock room is full of them, and now the customer's own engineer insists that only Moxa-branded modules may be fitted. switches…
Speccing the uplinks for an M4300-96X before the order goes in, and the 40G side has turned into a dead end that I would like to sanity check with people who have actually built one. NETGEAR M4300-96X chassis APM402XL port card for the 40G QSFP+ ports planned: two 40GBASE-X runs to the neighbouring…
We run packet capture on a handful of Napatech cards and I am putting together the optics order for the next rack. Before spending anything I want to understand what the qualified module list actually means in practice, because the wording leaves room for interpretation. Napatech NT40E3 and NT20E3…
We are adding a G610 to an existing fabric and there is a box of non-Brocade 16G/32G FC SFP+ left over from another build. Before I plan any ports around them I put one into a spare port on the bench to see what the switch makes of it. Brocade G610, Gen 6 third-party 32G FC SFP+, no Brocade…
