What is the costs & technical issue with the Cisco SFP-10G-T-X

[ospsms]

Why does a company like Cisco / Meraki not have an affordiable Cisco SFP-10G-T-X that they support?

For the life of me I don't know why Meraki has overlooked this SPF option. On the MS250's & MS125's with SPF ports a customer need to know that the ports were indeed designed to be plug & play 3rd party Mfg's of SPF. That is the whole engineering concept of the SPF technology. Why the hell doesn't Cisco / Meraki address this issue. 

When you need to order SPF for these enterprise switches, you have to pay 1000% markup for the Cisco SFP-10G-T-X that is only supported vs compatible options on the market. 

The gamble is you have play Russian roulette with the 3rd party SPF RJ45 spf's to see if they work.

So either test & support the affordable 3pty SPF 10G-TX options or lower their supported Cisco SFP-10G-T-X price!

Just really disappointed with Meraki and their 10G port offerings... They need in 2026 to add a MS switch to have at least 16/24 -10G Cat6 ports switch for the server back office. Even for a small company 8 server cabinet to interconnect the servers on 10G via a Meraki 10G switch... I have to purchase a TRENDnet TEG-S708 8-Port 10G Unmanaged Network Switch to interconnect the HPE Proliant servers at the 10G bandwidth before it uploaded to the Meraki LAN network via a MS250-24 SPF port.  

Makes no sense, Meraki need to step up their networking game!!! 

[alemabrahao]

Cisco/Meraki devices are indeed compatible with third-party SFPs; I've used them in several projects and never had a problem.

What model/vendor of SFP are you trying to use?

[jbright]

The C9200L-24PXG-4X-M switch is supported in the Meraki dashboard as of IOS XE 17.18.1

It has 24-port PoE+, 8 mGig (10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M) ports with 4x 1G/10G fixed uplinks, PWR-C5-600WAC

The C9500-24Y4C switch model has 24 1/10/25 GB SFP ports and is also supported now in the Meraki dashboard.

[ospsms]

Interesting ... this helped with learning about Cisco's supported Meraki dashboard conversion of some of the Catalyst 9200L-M switches. Even though we run a full Meraki network at our 2 sites, I still don't see the cost benefits of the 9200L-M plus licensing for our small shop application. Guess we'll stick to the unmanaged Trendnet 8 port 10G switch to tie our servers together with our 10G Backup NAS's then connect to the Meraki network via the MS250-24 SPF+ 10 links.

[jbright]

There is also a smaller switch, 

C9200CX-8UXG-2X which has 4x10G Multigigabit Ethernet UPoE  and 4x1G UPoE ports; 2x10G SFP+ fixed uplink ports; powered using 315W internal power supply unit; fanless.