This reason is twofold, one is Resellers were just buying whatever cheap gbics they could and bundling them with Procurve switches (I'm sure this happens to other vendors too). Thus most of the profitable parts of switch sales were being eroded by the resellers.
The other is that Procurve offers a lifetime warranty on most (possibly all) of their products, including gbics I believe, thus the premium. I believe you can just RMA a Procurve GBIC, and they will send you a new one, no receipts, no worries, no expiration, no service contract. He shouldn't have to eat 300 gbics unless he bought non-Procurve ones to begin with. HP should be able to exchange/reprogram them if they were HP Gbics. Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Jay R. Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:32 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: OT: GBIC compatibility and pricing (was Managed, cheap,DC power switches) > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:16:09PM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: > > Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > >For what it's worth, I gave the sales rep what-for about the price, and > > >he gave it back to me, telling me that Procurve switches will only > > >accept Procurve(-compatible) SFP GBICs, which cost more, both because > > >they're compatible, and because they're SFP. > > > > Recent Procurve switches only accept "rev B" modules; I have a new-ish > > switch that won't accept a pile of Finisar optics that did work in older > > HP switches. I don't know what the difference between "rev B" and older > > ones are, though. > > Specifically, that rep (Bill Billings) told me that a *firware upgrade* > broke compatibility with the old GBICs, which *originally* worked, and > he ended up eating nearly 300 of them at one point. > > But we're probably off topic now. :-) > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 > St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 > > Those who cast the vote decide nothing. > Those who count the vote decide everything. > -- (Josef Stalin)
