[107475] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Force10 Gear - Opinions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Israel)
Thu Sep 4 07:54:43 2008
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:54:11 -0400
From: Dave Israel <davei@otd.com>
To: Paul Wall <pauldotwall@gmail.com>
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Paul Wall wrote:
>
> Please realize that the above is list vs. list. Cisco 6500 series
> hardware is extremely popular in the secondary market, with discounts
> of 80% or greater on linecards, etc common, furthering the argument
> that Cisco is the cheaper of the two solutions.
>
Secondary market prices aren't a fair measure, unless you include the
corresponding cost for software and support. And the fact is, when we
put this out for an RFP, we ended up with Force10 having the lowest
price by a fair margin; the closest competitor in price was Foundry,
with Cisco a distant third. List prices aren't a good measure o actual
price; they're a number for salesmen to compare their discount to to
make people feel special.
In short: You can get the Force10 cheap.
