TechNote: HPE Aruba Networking equipment with Juniper Transceiver
I have only rarely had Juniper equipment at home or in the lab, but I still have a Juniper 1Gb multimode fibre transceiver. Now that the acquisition has been approved, it is worth seeing how these will appear in HPE Aruba Networking equipment!
Juniper 1Gb Transceiver
This is what I have:
- Juniper Networks (also marked Finisar)
- SKU: 740-031851, Rev 01
- SFP-1GE-SX-C
- 850nm MMF
- Made in Malaysia
Juniper Reference: https://apps.juniper.net/hct/model/?component=SFP-1G-SX-C
This is a "Common Optic", the same as our C-class for competitive pricing.
HPE Aruba Networking equivalent
- Standard XVR: J4858D (and you will probably see plenty of the older A, B and C variants too)
- C-class XVR: S2P30A
Installed in a CX 6200F switch
This is how the Juniper XVR appears when installed in a CX 6200F switch:
- Note that it does report as being unsupported!
- All the Digital Optical Monitoring (DOM) data is available.
- It also says Finisar and not Juniper; note the vendor part number includes J3, which is presumably a reference to the encoded Juniper Vendor ID
Check the neighbour info, and spanning tree:
Both ports 1/1/14 and 1/1/16 are connected to the same upstream switch, and not aggregated with LACP. MSTP has done its thing and blocked one port. Note that the fibre port has taken precedence, even though it was connected after the 1Gb RJ45 port linked. (The mgmt port acts as a separate NIC.)
View from Central
Central makes it easy to see which ports are participating in spanning tree
In an AOSS 2930F
As expected, the Juniper transceiver shows up as unsupported, with similar information and DOM as appears in the CX switch.
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Richard Litchfield
Airheads MVP 2020, 2021, 2022
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