topic Re: 40G transceivers for MHO in Hyperscale Firewall (Maestro)

40G transceivers for MHO

Wolfgang — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 06:30:35 GMT

"CPAC-TR-40SR-QSFP-100m" and "CPAC-TR-40SR-QSFP-100m-D" are available for MHO.

What's the difference? One of them is much cheaper then the other.

Re: 40G transceivers for MHO

Tom_Kendrick — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:09:00 GMT

At the moment, please use https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk92755 to confirm what is and is not supported (on any device/appliance).

-D transceivers were released with the new Quantum Force models, and there is a plan to try to support these -D's transceivers on MHO's (latest advice is that this may need an updated JHF). As you know, we already support the older -B, -C etc on the MHO's.

Tom

Re: 40G transceivers for MHO

Wolfgang — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:43:24 GMT

@Tom_Kendrick thanks, my mistake. I see -D transceiver is not supportet on the MHOs.

Re: 40G transceivers for MHO

Tom_Kendrick — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:08:46 GMT

Easy mistake to make - don't worry! Should be there soon... 🙂

Re: 40G transceivers for MHO

Wolfgang — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:50:17 GMT

@Tom_Kendrick follow up question……

For now, if I want to connect a 9xxx appliance to a MHO-175 I have to use „CPAC-TR-40SR-QSFP-100m“ in the MHO and „CPAC-TR-40SR-QSFP-100m-D“ in the 9xxx appliance?

I know it‘s a question of support but I‘ve to use a 900$ QSFP in the appliance and a 4500$ QSFP in the MHO for the same connection and both ends are Check Point appliances. That’s a mystery to me.

Any information when this will be supported with -D version and MHOs?

Re: 40G transceivers for MHO

emmap — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 01:53:48 GMT

Ideally you can use the CPAC-DAC-40G-3M-D DAC cable instead of QSFPs and fibre runs, it is already supported on MHOs and new appliances. If that's not an option and you need a solution today, then yes it's those transceivers. The -D options we hope to have certified on MHOs by end of next month, but no promises.

Re: 40G transceivers for MHO

Tom_Kendrick — Wed, 08 May 2024 15:34:22 GMT

Hi @Wolfgang,

Just to confirm, product mgmt have just posted a message internally, to state -D support has been added for the MHOs 🙂

Check https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk182207 for limitations and as previously mentioned, https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk92755 is the resource to track transceiver support across all the platforms.

Tom

Re: 40G transceivers for MHO

Wolfgang — Wed, 08 May 2024 16:36:51 GMT

These are great news.

Thanks @Tom_Kendrick