I hate those fukin things. What a lousy system. They get jammed up, impossible to remove from the expensive gear they’ve been plugged into. They all seem to eventually go fukin dead for no fukin reason at all. Touchy motherfukers. Fukin hate em.
Really seems like a skill issue lol. Or your company orders them from Temu lol.
Been working for almost 2 hears as a network admin, never had an issue with them.
And make sure you got Cisco ones for your Cisco gear. And wtf ever for your Dell crap. And the shitty ones your boss bought have 15% failure rate out of the box.
Sure. Tech this lousy needs some staunch believers.
If you’re gonna work in technology, you need to get comfortable with nuance. SFPs were invented to solve a problem, and they do it well. But just like every other technology, implementation matters.
There will always be shitty manufacturers and low quality kit out in the world. It’s a shitty craftsman who blames the tools.
I hate those fukin things. What a lousy system. They get jammed up, impossible to remove from the expensive gear they’ve been plugged into. They all seem to eventually go fukin dead for no fukin reason at all. Touchy motherfukers. Fukin hate em.
If you’re doing 10G over copper, it’s because they cook themselves. Nothing that size with no cooling should be burning 2.5 watts of power.
I’ll continue to call that no fukin reason at all.
Or we could call it inherent design issues. Which is about the same thing.
Really seems like a skill issue lol. Or your company orders them from Temu lol. Been working for almost 2 hears as a network admin, never had an issue with them.
I have 35 years in the field. Welcome.
If you’ve not seen a jammed SFP, read this thread. It happens.
Removing them can be pretty shit though. Some of the old ones require jamming something between the plug and the housing to wiggle them free.
It has its problems, but after working with networking equipment that uses fiber to connect long distances, I am a staunch believer in the utility.
Even copper SFPs. Did a device take a power surge over Ethernet? Rather than replacing the whole switch, just replace the SFP!
And make sure you got Cisco ones for your Cisco gear. And wtf ever for your Dell crap. And the shitty ones your boss bought have 15% failure rate out of the box.
Sure. Tech this lousy needs some staunch believers.
If you’re gonna work in technology, you need to get comfortable with nuance. SFPs were invented to solve a problem, and they do it well. But just like every other technology, implementation matters.
There will always be shitty manufacturers and low quality kit out in the world. It’s a shitty craftsman who blames the tools.
I have to use a hooked pick to get them out. My fingers are too big to reach the tiny lever that releases them.