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10000 percent more expensive SFPs

11th April 2017 By Greg Ferro Filed Under: Blog

Cisco genuine SFP for 1000BASE-BX BiDi is 100 times more expensive than a compatible product. Choosing two random sites, Walmart sells Cisco genuine part for $829, Fibrestore sells same component for $7.29.

 

 

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Proving that Enterprise IT really doesn’t care about price, ROI, or value for money. Thats just management self-justifying their lack of talent and ability to measure risk.

Private Cloud will never compete with public cloud while price distortions like this are commonplace.

Link: 1000BASE-BX SFP 1310nm-TX/1490nm-RX 10km Transceiver | FS.COM – http://www.fs.com/products/29894.html

Link: Cisco 1000BASE-BX10 Downstream SFP Module – 1 x 1000Base-BX – Walmart.com – https://www.walmart.com/ip/Cisco-1000BASE-BX10-Downstream-SFP-Module/40322147

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Comments

  1. m0nkey br4in says

    11th April 2017 at 18:55 +0100

    Oh, by the way, Walmart’s photo is not even of this exact module. BiDi SFPs have only one hole for a fiber.

    • Greg Ferro says

      12th April 2017 at 10:04 +0100

      Yep. Shop around, the price doesn’t change much no matter where it is.

  2. James says

    11th April 2017 at 21:51 +0100

    I’ve had good experience with 3rd party optics (OSI Hardware) at about 2-3% the price of Cisco (97-98% discount), even the 10G stuff. I’ve never used FS.com optics though, which cost even less. What are people’s experiences?

    Frankly, moving off vendor optics in any way is a huge money saver.

  3. Stephane says

    12th April 2017 at 07:35 +0100

    No support issue with vendor when using compatible products ?

    • Greg Ferro says

      12th April 2017 at 10:03 +0100

      Some people have problems, you need to have a level of technical competence to understand what to buy or not.

      Since you can save $40000 per switch, you have a lot of incentive to do that. Right ?

    • Nick says

      12th April 2017 at 10:15 +0100

      The use of generic optic is fully supported on Nexus 9000 switches. So you can choose and still maintain support.

  4. Michal Nehasil says

    12th April 2017 at 09:47 +0100

    I was buying few pairs of 1000BASE-BX-U BiDi SFPs at FS.com to test them. They work just fine. When i placed the order guy from FS.com asked me which switch exactly i want to use so they can test SFPs for compatibility. Good experience.

  5. Steve says

    12th April 2017 at 14:42 +0100

    One guy I talked to who worked for gov’t said that it was such a pain to buy something that if he wanted to get 3rd party optics it would be another RFP, so they just include optics with the main RFP for the project despite having to pay 100x the price.

  6. Robert Hass says

    14th April 2017 at 01:07 +0100

    We receiving 90+% discount for genuine optics for top-3 vendor – which is fair deal to buy genuine instead of cheap China. Dismantle fs.com optics and eg. Cisco or high-end optics (Finisar, Avago) – You will see difference in manufacture. In operations there is very big difference in EMI between cheap optics and high-end – especially for higher speeds like 10G/40G/100G.

  7. Martin says

    14th April 2017 at 09:18 +0100

    One wonders how they can make an SFP for 7 pounds ( I mean even the process to press, bend and make the metal case … Amazing)

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