XFP 10GE modules for 5600's

[oldNortelguy]

Anyone found combatable XFP 10GE modules that run fine in the 5600’s so we know options?

[DaveTheRave]

Not sure if this is allowed but, I get my GBICS from here and they are a third of the cost of the official Nortel / Avaya ones. We bought a quite a few 10g optical transceivers for our 8600's and they work great. UK based.

http://www.simpleuk.com/manufacturer/27-nortel.aspx

[oldNortelguy]

I had tried that on soem 470 switch GBIC's once. Some worked, some did not. So, was looking for who tried what and worked. thanks.

[DaveTheRave]

Ill need to check but I'm 99% sure we are using these in our 5600's as well.

[Telair]

When cost is a concern to a client, we get our pluggable optics from MRV.  Anything you can dream of those guys make it for pluggable optics.  Need an SFP to plug in to a gig port, but run 100Base-FX optical?  They make it.  Need to run gigabit data over 1km on 62.5um fiber?  They make it.

http://www.mrv.com/pluggables/

[Michael McNamara]

We use the same 10GBaseER optics that we use in our ERS 8600 in our ERS 5530s without issue so I would be surprise if that is any different on the ERS 5600 series. There is a document out there somewhere that detail which optics will and won't work in which switches but these days I believe most of them are interoperable.

I'll see if I can dig it up.

Cheers!