What SFP programmer board or coding system are y'all using for your transceivers and DAC cables?
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fs.com sells these FS Box - Firmware Upgrade Tool Kit
Cannot tell if its good - I've never had to reprogram any sfps.
(upd): oops. they say it only work on fs.com modules.
Cannot tell if its good - I've never had to reprogram any sfps.
(upd): oops. they say it only work on fs.com modules.
You will have a very hard time finding a programmer that will handle anything other than optics sold by that particular programmer manufacturer. Actually, you can find the programmer hardware (it's a simple I2C to USB adapter) but you won't find software to change the optics so they can be reprogrammed by someone else's tool.
I use the Solid Optics Fiber Multi Tool (an older version of this) because I can get custom codings for bizarre applications when needed (for example, coding a 100Mbit DWDM optic to appear as a 100Mbit multimode to get it to work in a Catalyst 3750 which only supports multimode at 100Mbit). If your needs are more conventional, you could get by with less expensive optics / tool, for example from fs.com.
don't own one, but I've used SFP Total units at work. Their software comes with something like ~300 vendor unlock passwords/scripts, they'll write to pretty much all the major locked optics - and if it can't, it supports some brute force methods you can leave it to try overnight, although I've never had to use/test that functionality. It'll let you arbitrarily code any part of the MSA spec, eg the byte identifying the media type as terry mentioned
SFPTotal - Programmer GBIC, SFP, SFP+, XFP, QSFP transceivers
SFPTotal - Programmer GBIC, SFP, SFP+, XFP, QSFP transceivers
I've been interested in such a thing for quite some time.
The $980 price tag is probably more than the optics/cables we want to reprogram are worth. If there is interest in this sort of thing here would folks be interested in a rental program?
Thinking out loud... I think $100 (or less depending on interest) for a week or two rental including shipping both ways would be reasonable.
True, but the $980 version has QSFP+ support and that would make it appeal to a wider audience that should make the rental cost go down. Given that I'd likely only need this device once, I'd rather pay a $100 rental fee than buy one at $350. Anyway, I'm just thinking out loud... mostly because I want the $980 version so I can program QSFP optics but am too cheap to pony up the cash for a one-time use.