Programmable SFP+ Transcievers

Matthew Crocker matthew at corp.crocker.com
Sat Jan 23 00:47:41 UTC 2016


https://www.flexoptix.net/en/ will give you a programmer on your first order if you post something about it on social media.    They also send some candy with every order :)

I’ve had very good luck with Flexoptics for SFP, SFP+ & XFP,  Juniper, Cisco, HP all work perfectly.



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Matthew Crocker
President - Crocker Communications, Inc.
Managing Partner - Crocker Telecommunications, LLC
E: matthew at corp.crocker.com
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> On Jan 22, 2016, at 5:55 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Freddy,
> 
> So are you saying if you order enough from Fiberstore.com they will give
> you a programmer? That seems like the best solution.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Frederik Kriewitz <frederik at kriewitz.eu>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> What options are out there for re-programmable SFP and SFP+ transceivers?
>>> So far I have found both
>>> https://www.flexoptix.net/en/flexbox-v3-transceiver-programmer.html and
>>> 
>> http://solid-optics.com/tools/multi-fiber-tool/so-multi-fiber-tool-id1768.html
>>> Is there anything else out there? Any opinions on these two companies?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I believe they both require you to use their SFPs in order to program
>> them,
>>> but I could be wrong.
>> 
>> You're right, both companies programmers only work with their own
>> transceiver.
>> We've some transceivers from FlexOptix including the FlexBoxv3. We
>> never had a problem with them. They have very good engineers.
>> From the pricing SolidOptics list prices are better than FlexOptics,
>> but just talk to them and see if they can meet your pricing
>> requirements.
>> In our case we ended up with FlexOptix but we're only ordering there
>> when we need something urgent (same/next day).
>> Otherwise we're buying directly from China (Fiberstore). Neither Solid
>> Optics or FlexOptix could beat their prices. We're buying all the
>> expensive stuff stuff and larger quantities from them. So far we never
>> had a problem with them either. After reaching a sales volume of 30000
>> USD they will give you a programmer for their transceivers too.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Freddy
>> 
> 





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