Programmable SFP+ Transcievers
Ashley Kitto
Ashley.Kitto at nominum.com
Sat Jan 23 02:19:06 UTC 2016
I haven’t had to actually reprogram any, but have a bunch of flexoptics modules preprogrammed for Arista which have been working great. Very easy people to deal with, and yes, candy. :>
Ashley Kitto
Nominum
> On Jan 22, 2016, at 4:47 PM, Matthew Crocker <matthew at corp.crocker.com> wrote:
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> 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 :)
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> 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
> E: matthew at crocker.com
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>> On Jan 22, 2016, at 5:55 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Freddy,
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>> So are you saying if you order enough from Fiberstore.com they will give
>> you a programmer? That seems like the best solution.
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>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Frederik Kriewitz <frederik at kriewitz.eu>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>>>> I believe they both require you to use their SFPs in order to program
>>> them,
>>>> but I could be wrong.
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>>> 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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