A client of mine has some Foundry FastIron Edge X424HFs.
Brocade and Extreme don't seem overly ambitious to help.
Anyone have any documentation they can scrounge up? SFP compatibility list? The ones I see in there already look substantially like the ones I get from FiberStore, but that doesn't mean much.
Do they still sell support on these? I'm largely just interested in newer firmware for them. I don't think they were updated since they left the factory and there are a few quirks I'm hoping they addressed at some point.
:A client of mine has some Foundry FastIron Edge X424HFs.
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:Brocade and Extreme don't seem overly ambitious to help.
Brocade EOL'ed those old FESX-4 switches themselves on 03/31/2011,
with EOS in 2016. This was before Brocadecom spun off to Extreme.
:Anyone have any documentation they can scrounge up? SFP compatibility list? The ones I see in there already look substantially like the ones I get from FiberStore, but that doesn't mean much.
Can't help you there, sorry...
:Do they still sell support on these? I'm largely just interested in newer firmware for them. I don't think they were updated since they left the factory and there are a few quirks I'm hoping they addressed at some point.
Depending on your bother, check out the FESX424-L3U "Layer 3 Upgrade
Kit". That particular software piece looks like it gets support for
another few months, if I am to believe Brocade's website (which only
has the FESX-6 EOL notice, not the older FESX-4 one).
http://www.brocade.com/en/backend-content/pdf-page.html?/content/dam/common/documents/content-types/end-of-life-notice/brocade-fastiron-edge-x-6-end-of-life-notice.pdf
-Mike
By the way, Foundry/Brocade small/campus switches were sold by Broadcom to Ruckus, not to Extreme (who bought the bigger switch/routers).
https://support.ruckuswireless.com/product_families/21-ruckus-icx-campus-switches
https://support.ruckuswireless.com/product_families/23-_eol-fastiron-products
Of course, as it is an end of life product in their shopping bag, I wouldn't expect much 
In my experience, Brocades in general aren’t very picky when it comes to working with any optic branding. It’s just the DOM that might or might not work.
I’ve only ever had 1 vendor show issues with Brocade after an ironware upgrade.
Can always grab a few brocade branded optics from Flexoptix
Jeroen Wunnink
Intergration Engineering
www.gtt.net <http://www.gtt.net/>
This applies to the Foundry-lineage stuff. The Brocade-lineage stuff, especially anything having to do with Fibre Channel, is sometimes locked to Brocade-ROM'd parts only. The somewhat popular/cheap 10GbE/FCoE cards floating around exhibit this.