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No the Gbigs that are supported in Cisco devices are Cisco proprietary and only work in Cisco devices. Thats not to say that you could connect it and the Netgear would work with it. You just might get unexpected results.<br />
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Its just not support and i personally would not trust it. <br />
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No the Gbigs that are supported in Cisco devices are Cisco proprietary and only work in Cisco devices. Thats not to say that you could connect it and the Netgear would work with it. You just might get unexpected results.

Its just not support and i personally would not trust it.




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If we use NetGear GBIC's on the Netgear switch will it be OK to connect to cisco's Gbics on the other side of the fiber?
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If we use NetGear GBIC's on the Netgear switch will it be OK to connect to cisco's Gbics on the other side of the fiber?

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I have an older Cisco switch that is coming to end of life. &nbsp;We are replacing it with a Netgear switch and are hoping to use the same gbics. &nbsp;Will this work or will I need to buy gbics specifically for Netgear?<br />
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I have an older Cisco switch that is coming to end of life.  We are replacing it with a Netgear switch and are hoping to use the same gbics.  Will this work or will I need to buy gbics specifically for Netgear?

Thanks 

Will a Cisco gbic work in a Netgear switch?

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.

Switches / Hubs

Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.