Longevity of a transceiver
While there is no problem with the quality in most cases, there is always uncertainty if they work as expected. In the last 12 years in optical networking, we''ve met customers who choose 3rd party
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There shouldn''t be anything wrong with third-party optics, they are generally from the same manufacturers as first-party. If you are seeing unusually high failure rates I would bring that up with