topic Re: Any 25Gbps LR SFP28 on BES-53248 in AFF Metrocluster experience in AFF

Any 25Gbps LR SFP28 on BES-53248 in AFF Metrocluster experience

jenoptik — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:18:00 GMT

Hello community,

Does anyone have experience with using 25G Long Range SFP28 Adapters on a Broadcom BES-53248 for the Metrocluster ISL?

As far as I can read from the documentation the switch supports 25G SFP28 LR Adapters like the AFCT‐725SMZ from FOIT/Avago. Neither NetApp nor Lenovo list these adapters. Maybe, because Broadcom started listing the adapters as supported since June 2021.

Thank you for any answer.

Re: Any 25Gbps LR SFP28 on BES-53248 in AFF Metrocluster experience

Fabian1993 — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 06:19:56 GMT

in the past there were always SFPs there where not listed on the List, but if the Switch vendor (Broadcom) support the SFP there normally no Problem with that, you have to buy that SFP external.

Re: Any 25Gbps LR SFP28 on BES-53248 in AFF Metrocluster experience

jenoptik — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 07:23:01 GMT

We will give it a try and see how it works.

I will update this thread once the upgrade is done.

Thank you 🙂

Re: Any 25Gbps LR SFP28 on BES-53248 in AFF Metrocluster experience

tahmad — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 04:21:15 GMT

Hello @jenoptik , Did you try the @Fabian1993 's suggestion?