nightshade00013
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It tends to depend on if the hardware is locked down to a brand or not. That is where it becomes more limited with DAC's since if both products are hardware locked and are different you can not use a DAC to link the two.
The optics are basically the same but since the cable is removable and the transceivers will be able to inter-operate you just use whatever is required or a "generic" one. Some devices will work just fine with pretty much whatever but you will not be able to get the same information unless you use ones that are flashed to show they are their brand. The way I ended up going was to just hit FiberStore www.fs.com and let them look it up.
Also want to add in here that the Quanta LB6M became a little bit more viable as it seems they can be flashed to a Brocade TurboIron
If you are looking for one they also have a deal going on till the end of march https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/the-quanta-lb6m-deal-thread.17824/
The optics are basically the same but since the cable is removable and the transceivers will be able to inter-operate you just use whatever is required or a "generic" one. Some devices will work just fine with pretty much whatever but you will not be able to get the same information unless you use ones that are flashed to show they are their brand. The way I ended up going was to just hit FiberStore www.fs.com and let them look it up.
Also want to add in here that the Quanta LB6M became a little bit more viable as it seems they can be flashed to a Brocade TurboIron
If you are looking for one they also have a deal going on till the end of march https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/the-quanta-lb6m-deal-thread.17824/