Dear Intel!
This entire situation just make me sick and tired.. Why on earth does one develop standards just to put up "branding walls" around them..? I find this entire situation with "only being able to use branded/coded SFP and SFP+ modulesin the respective manufacturer’s products completely based on protectionism and nothing else..
Back in the days when it all was GBICs and this situation was not present everything just _worked_.. This is not criticism against Intel alone but against the entire networking sector. But one would think Intel, being and open minded company would skip this kind of nonsense.
I’ve bought another network card now and everything works fine and dandy with my HP branded DAC..