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Hi,<br>
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Back last year, I experienced less than expected reliability
with QFX and their QSFPs.<br>
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We prefer to use optic.ca since they're a few minutes from our
DC's and will respond within the day, with platform and firmware
changes, which we can test in lab before shipping to our remotes.<br>
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The price difference is made reducing downtime in our case.<br>
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Alain Hebert <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ahebert@pubnix.net">ahebert@pubnix.net</a>
PubNIX Inc.
50 boul. St-Charles
P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7
Tel: 514-990-5911 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pubnix.net">http://www.pubnix.net</a> Fax: 514-990-9443
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-09-20 08:54, Bryan Holloway
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:d11ee9bf-1b23-66bc-125b-3e4c190cae61@shout.net">It boils
down to a business case.
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In my travels we see a high failure rate -- higher than I'd like
to see --, but $boss likes the price, and, as Jason pointed out
below, for the price, it can be a "successful" business model.
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In a nutshell:
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For someone on a budget, they're great; buy spares.
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For someone who doesn't want to deal with outages, call-volume,
hands tickets, truck-rolls, and has money to burn, there are
better alternatives.
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On 9/20/19 2:41 PM, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">We have maybe 1:50 DOA, but they’re so
cheap, we just throw them out because it’s not worth the RMA.
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That said, I can’t remember the last time we’ve had any of these
fail in the field, or have had any issues with variablity in
TX/RX power. We have tens of thousands of these in the field,
from 100Mb Bidi to 100G-LR and everything in between, including
*WDM up to 80KM.
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<blockquote type="cite">On Sep 20, 2019, at 8:31 AM, Nicholas
Warren <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nwarren@barryelectric.com"><nwarren@barryelectric.com></a> wrote:
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Anyone have experience with fs.com's lasers? Are they
reliable?
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