FlexOptix will give you the programmer for the SFP’s if you buy a minimum lot of SFP's. They have profiles for all of the major manufacturers that will tell the equipment it’s a branded SFP. For the items they don’t have a profile for you just need one of the manufacturers coded ones to suck the configuration out and blow it back into a FlexOptix SFP. Works great. You can even have them modify a profile for a SFP if you need to lie to the equipment about what it is you installed - like a BIDI single mode pretending to be a standard multimode.
German company but they ship Fedex overnight at reasonable cost. Mark > On Jul 27, 2018, at 2:18 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > That is the case with many if not most vendors that use SFPs. > > Even back in the SONET days, Alcatel would not gracefully talk to Fujitsu. > They would talk but there were all kinds of alarms on both ends. > > -----Original Message----- From: Adam Moffett > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 11:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tower Fiber > > And the random SFP I tried a few years ago actually worked perfectly > fine by the way. The only difference was the Compact would toss alarms > about it on a regularly schedule. So apparently you can use any SFP as > long as you're willing to ignore the alarms. > > -Adam > > > On 7/27/2018 1:32 PM, SmarterBroadband wrote: >> Hi Adam >> >> Telrad show two transceivers for Compacts on their Zendesk site. I think >> this one is Single mode. >> >> Finisar FTLF1321P1xTL >> >> I have asked FS.com if they have a compatible module. >> >> Adam >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett >> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 3:19 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tower Fiber >> >> >> >> On 7/26/2018 5:56 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: >>> On 7/26/18 2:50 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: >>>> Save yourself the hassle and never use multimode for anything. >>>> >>> >>> Multimode is always a mistake at some point in its lifetime. >>> Singlemode is forever. >>> >> Single mode is better in all cases. >> The only reason for multimode was that the the transmitter for single mode >> is a laser and lasers were expensive. Multimode uses LED transmitters which >> were cheaper. VCSEL Lasers turned that upside down and single mode is the >> cheaper one now. The fiber itself costs about the same. >> >> There are always exceptions. Last I knew the only "approved" SFP for a >> Telrad Compact was a multimode one. The device will toss alarms if you put >> in any other SFP module. >> ....and I'll grant you that I last tried a 3rd party SFP about 2 years ago, >> so this could have changed, but it was definitely true in 2015 & 2016. So >> all of our Compacts have a multimode fiber cable. Cest La Vie. >> >> It was also the case that SFPs with industrial temperature spec were cheaper >> in multimode. I'm not sure if that's still true, but it was for awhile. >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
