On 07.09.2021 20:04, harbor235 wrote: > How are your organizations dealing with Cisco equipment and usage of third > party optics? > 1) Cisco or "third party"? > 2) Cisco policy regarding third party components? Third party only ... we use programmable optics, which we can flash ourselves ... saves a lot on inventory, as we can always change to Juniper (which typically don't care about the programming) or any other vendor in case a customer needs something on short notice ... > Is it worth the risk?
Risk? Not really any risk there ... in 20+ years of using third party optics/SFPs, we've never had an issue with any ... only situation, as others have stated, could be when opening a ticket with TAC and the optics aren't reported as Cisco ... Weird side note: we bought some originally Cisco DAC cables for a customer w/ Nexus 5k5/2k2 switches ... while the optics were 3rd party and identified by the system as original Cisco, the original Cisco DACs are reported as being non-Cisco ... those cables were from our regular Cisco distributor, I highly doubt they delivered fake 3rd party cables ... (also, they've been working now for 8+ years, so either way, no complaint here ...) -garry _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
