Whether or not your WAN connection is hooked up via SFP or RJ45 (copper ethernet) has no bearing on compatibility between the ER and any switches or devices behind it. Two totally separate hookups. Now, if certain encapsulation and/or packet overheads are involved with that WAN connection, and you're potentially getting issues on egress traffic from LAN to WAN, you might have to adjust things like MTU, but that's more under the umbrella of addressable tweaks, than an out-and-out reason for all-or-nothing compatibility. Make sense?