<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>What is the vendor-lock scene like in the world of OLT optics? Is it as bad as Ethernet optics? If it exists, is there actually a good reason for it (other than money)?<div><br></div><div>Have any of you tried third-party optics in Zhone gear?<br><br>Have any of you tried FS OLT optics in anything but ZTE and Huawei?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>FS says their optics only work in ZTE\Huawei, but their own customer reviews have at least one other person saying it worked fine in their Zhone device.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm sure I'll get people saying that for something so important, one should only deploy first-party optics, regardless of the cost. Zhone's pricing isn't bad at all.... but if there's effectively no difference, then you might as well buy the cheaper one.<br><div><br></div><div><br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br>Midwest-IX<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<span name="x"></span><br></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>