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The FireBrick 2900 has 4 copper ports and 1 SFP port. The SFP port allows flexible connection to other devices - ege.g. a 5th copper port, fibre or DACs, and even VDSL modem.
 
==TL;DR==
The longer version for a bit more context:
 
Most SFPs have a little ROM chip inside them with make/model etc., and
most vendors use this to lock you into their own SFPs, iei.e. Cisco switches
paired up with specific Cisco SFPs on a whitelist. They probably do this
for a reason, but it's really annoying, especially when you think you've
==VDSL SFPs==
 
We have tried VDSL SFPs, and they do work. There are are a few caveats - they seem to run hot and may provide a less stable connection (iei.e. sync drops). More testing needs to happen though.
 
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