[176187] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A case against vendor-locking optical modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naslund, Steve)
Tue Nov 18 14:05:18 2014
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From: "Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund@medline.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:05:07 +0000
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They want the ability to buy off the shelf components when they manufacture=
. They just don't want you to have the same privilege when you purchase. =
Your switches and routers are made of a bunch of OEM components with some c=
ustom programmed ASICS and some secret sauce. If they used non standard in=
terface specs their costs would go through the roof as their power supplies=
, memory, storage, and NICS would be all custom development.
Steven Naslund
Chicago IL
> On Nov 18, 2014, at 12:42 PM, "Baldur Norddahl" <baldur.norddahl@gmail.co=
m> wrote:
>=20
> If they really wanted to lock you in, they would have triangular modules
> instead of square...
>=20
> Or I suppose the vendors like to be able to shop around for modules, befo=
re
> they relabel and sell them to you at a 10x markup.
