Switch – Fibre (Fiber) Optic – Mixing SFP’s and Switches

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My generic question is: Can you mix switches on the opposite sides of a fibre link, or more accurately different manufactuors tranceivers.

We just bought several new HP ProCurve v1810 series switches (J9450A and J9660A) and the correct HP fibre SFP's (J4858C).

We have old existing HP ProCurve 2124 (J4868A) and 2324 (J4818A)'s with non SFP fibre connections (using SC connectors i think) which i'm going to get different patch leads (ST-LC) to connect to the newer switches.

But we also have a newer fibre link setup with small Level1 4 port & 1 SFP switches (GSW-0508) with their SFP.

With the Level1 switch+SFP work if plugged into a HP ProCurve V1810+SFP via fibre?

I understand about the problems with mix+matching SFP's

Best Answer

As long as the type of link is the same (eg 10G SR) and you have the appropriate physical connectors you should be fine. Incidentally, unless there is a patch panel somewhere in the mix it is unlikely you have any ST. You probably want SC - LC if you are going from an older XFP/XENPAK module to an SFP+.