Astra Photon's SFP Transceiver Compatible with Cisco/Juniper?

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In our experience, many customers ask whether Astra Photon's sfp modules are compatible with Cisco, Juniper, HP, Extreme, Huawei, Nortel, Zyxel and other brands when they enquire with us for them . To tell the truth, Astra Photon can provide SFP modules which can compatible with these brands. But there is no" YES" or "NO" answered to the question of Cisco/Juniper/Alcatel/Redback/etc compatibility; it depends on the manufacturer's equipment. Best recommendation is to field try any third party module first. Compatibility has nothing to do with the functions of the transceiver, only in recognizing ID code and selecting to lock out third party SFP or not. All Astra Photon's SFP are manufactured in accordance with SFF (the Small Form Factor consortium). SFP introduced "manufacturer coding" within the transceiver. The idea of having coding was actually meant for network management software to be able to 'inventory' the pluggable modules within the network. However Cisco and some other appliance manufactures (Alcatel is another), used the coding scheme to lock out all other third party transceivers except those that had the same host equipment's ID code. Basically this allowed Cisco and others to monopolize the transceivers for their equipment and charge three to five times the market value for those transceivers. Now Astra Photon help all the dealers solve the problem and help all of your save three or five times of the cost . SFP+ module, SFP+ transceiver, bidi sfp, XFP module, XFP transceiver Which is good? First choice Astra Photon！Thanks for your concern, to learn more about Astra Photon, please enter Astra Photon website: http://www.Astra Photon sales team/