[191139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arista unqualified SFP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Kuhnke)
Fri Aug 19 13:30:53 2016
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From: Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 10:30:49 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
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I would like to see optics made in a shack in a rain forest, maybe we can
find a new market to sell hand made artisanal fair trade organic GMO-free
gluten-free lasers.
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 label
>> 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'ing
> 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 value
> 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 saying
> goes, only an idiot pays list price.)
>
