[191136] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Arista unqualified SFP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan DiRocco)
Fri Aug 19 08:40:13 2016
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From: Ryan DiRocco <ryan.dirocco@totalserversolutions.com>
To: Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:38:01 +0000
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I wouldn't be surprised to see GOV contracts in that list :) It's the new $=
10,000 toilet seat to fund black ops!
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From: NANOG [nanog-bounces@nanog.org] on behalf of Eric Kuhnke [eric.kuhnke=
@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 10:41 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Arista unqualified SFP
Though it would be really interesting to see, if a company like Cisco or
Juniper ever suffered a major data leak, what number of customers really do
pay full list price for some stuff.
"Yeppers, twenty 1310nm LX 10Gb SFP+ for $4800 each, sounds good. Where do
we send the check?"
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:05:30 -0400, Tim Jackson <jackson.tim@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> "As I'm sure you know, Arista is not the only manufacturer that has made
>> this choice. Unlike our competition, we work to make our optics pricing
>> competitive, but we'll never be as low as the "Taiwan specials" that you
>> see floating around. I have another customer that was flashing white lab=
el
>> optics that just made the decision to start using Arista labeled optics
>> again because they were tired of bad quality."
>>
>
> I can't count the number of times I've seen this BS from vendors. I'm not
> buying crap made in a shack out in a rain forest. I'm buying the same f'i=
ng
> optics from the same f'ing people as the vendor. (Finisar, Infineon, etc.=
)
> The only difference between my $10 optic and their $300 optic is the valu=
e
> in an EEPROM and the logo on the label.
>
> (I know from experience, the numbers on the price sheet are inflated so
> sales can maintain the illusion of "deep customer discounts". As the sayi=
ng
> goes, only an idiot pays list price.)
>
