Allied Telesis AT-SP10T Compatibility List

SFP Compatibility

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Companies and organizations are now seeking
cost-effective alternatives to Cisco-branded Small Form
Pluggable (SFP) transceivers.

It appears that Cisco switches do not support Allied Telesis
SFPs. If you try using any third-party SFPs to connect your
network backbone, you’ll quickly stumble across an error.

When an SFP is inserted into a Cisco switch’s SFP port, the
switch immediately reads a number of values from the SFP.
If it doesn’t like what it sees, it displays an error message,
leading you to believe that the switch can’t work with third­party SFPs. Allied Telesis does have a solution for this error.

All SFP modules contain a number of recorded values in their
EEPROM. These values include:

▶ Vendor Name
▶ Vendor ID
▶ Serial Number
▶ Security Code
▶ CRC

How to enable the Cisco switch to use
Allied Telesis SFPs

Despite the displayed error, there are two undocumented
commands which you can use to enable Cisco switches to use
the SFP port, and the Allied Telesis SFPs:

▶ First: #service unsupported_transceiver.
▶ Second: #no errdisable detect cause gbicinvalid

Easy three step process:

Step 1: Command:#service unsupported_transceiver

Step 2: Command: #no errdisable detect cause

gbicinvalid

Step 3: Insert Allied Telesis SFP, and connect to the

network

That’s it! Congratulations, you can now use

Allied Telesis SFP’s in your Cisco switches.

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