SFP oraganizers / storage recommendations

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Any recommendations to keep track of different SFP and keep them organized? Any storage boxes / trays designed for SFPs?

2

If you buy your SFPs from fs.com, they come in a nice organizer -- and
if you buy less than a tray full, you still get a tray.
I keep spares in the trays, labeled on the outside -- I then put the
trays in a cheap toolbox / fishing tackle box, and list what's in each
one in a Google spreadsheet.

Whenever I'm actually at the cage / rack and have a few minutes I
compare the spreadsheet to reality, and update accordingly (SFPs, and
XFPs in particular evaporate over time...)

W

3

I’m wondering if the barcodes on the SFPs would let you simplify things a bit more vs. updating a spreadsheet. IE: Some sort of barcode scanner app for your phone that could automagically add/remove from some sort of document or database?

4

Barcodes on FS.com is the serial, so you'd need to receive them in or enter them with PN and SN.

Ns

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I’m wondering if the barcodes on the SFPs would let you simplify things a bit more vs. updating a spreadsheet. IE: Some sort of barcode scanner app for your phone that could automagically add/remove from some sort of document or database?

Barcode is likely to just be the serial #, not model #?

       - Ethan O'Toole

6

We use a few of these.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LDH3JC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

We label the fronts with address label's for each PN.

https://i.imgur.com/iDTNVJ9.jpg

Luke Guillory
Vice President – Technology and Innovation

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7

We have ones from FS with our own logo on them and don’t pay any more (or marginally so), so I’m sure it’d trivial for FS to make a label that included a bar code for the PN or whatever you wanted, really.

8

I’ve been doing the nice plastic trays from fs.com as well as a sharpie on the side (bidi, mm, sm, distance, etc)

9

3D printed some, but i have small amounts.
Like this one: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2855165
There is many more designs, for example whole tray for 50 pieces.

10

Hi Matthew

There's a typical 10*SFP tray and less common 20* tray. Flexoptix,
Fiberstore and others retail these (as well as use them to protect
their transceivers in transit) or AliBaba gives lots of hits. Use a
tray per transceiver part number and keep them vertical in an
appropriately-sized box. If you have a lot of transceivers then use
distinct boxes for SMF/MMF, 1G/10G/40G/100G, etc. If you're careful in
your tray choice then the trays will also hold 4*XFP, 4*QSFP, etc.
Using a small post-it note *on the inside* of the transparent cover is
a convenient way to label the tray with the part number of the SFPs
inside.

Best wishes, glen