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Omniman
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SFP Capabilities

Thu Mar 01, 2018 7:58 pm

I'm used to identical SFP modules communicating with each other between switches. Lets say I want to toss a 10Gbps SFP into my Ubiquiti switch that will be communicating to an Intel fiber 10Gbps connection in a server. Am I going to have problems?
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Re: SFP Capabilities

Thu Mar 01, 2018 8:14 pm

SFP+ (+ = 10Gb) with the same optical transmission mode on both ends will work as long as neither switch/NIC has a dumb vendor lockout aka hardware DRM lock-in for overpriced crap. If they do, you need to have the right vendor type on the respective end. Some online vendors will program "compatible" ids if you buy direct, ymmv.

Same goes for DACs (short copper one-piece cables, actually lower latency and power for those runs) but mixing vendor types is much harder there if both ends are infected with DRM.
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