Internet search engines are censoring this data so I will probably have to embed it in a photo, but here is how you enable use of third party transceivers such as SFP/SFP+ fiber optics on e.g., Juniper's JunOS and Cisco IOS.

Juniper:

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Cisco:

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HP/Aruba:

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Dell:

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This is something seasoned network engineers know about, but there's no reason why this should be kept secret.

I will add more when I learn of them.


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