[191110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arista unqualified SFP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Thu Aug 18 13:45:06 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>, dovid@telecurve.com
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:18:47 +0200
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Cc: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org>, nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 18/Aug/16 13:47, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote:
> Same here, i was considering Arista, because they are quite cost
> effective,feature rich, interesting hardware for developing some
> custom solutions. But no more, after reading about unreasonable vendor
> lock-in.
> But such inflexibility are very bad sign, this "openness" looks like
> marketing only, under the hood it seems worse than other solutions on
> market. Also when support shows such inflexibility, it is very bad
> sign. And very sad.
Don't be too hasty. See my response earlier.
Mark.
