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4 Nov, 2025





£17.14 inc. VAT
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For £14.29 ex-VAT, this is exactly the kind of “keep the lights on” SFP+ optics you buy when you don’t want to pay headline-pricing from the switch vendor. If you’ve got a Brocade-compatible environment and you’re running single‑mode fibre links at up to around 10 km, a compatible LR SFP+ like this is a solid value play. The DDM part is also genuinely useful in day-to-day operations—letting you monitor optics health instead of waiting for a flaky link to fail in the middle of something important.
That said, I wouldn’t buy it blindly. The main risk with third-party optics is compatibility quirks with specific switch models/firmware, and sometimes you get “it works” but with weird diagnostics or intermittent behaviour. Before ordering, make sure the optics are supported/known-good for your exact Brocade platform and that your fibre run is within LR expectations (single-mode, correct wavelength/connector setup, and no nasty budget/power-margin surprises). If you want guaranteed vendor-level certainty, pay more. If you want good performance for a sensible price and you’ve validated compatibility, this is a sensible purchase.

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