[191880] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: nexus N3K-C3064PQ vs juniper ex4500 in order to protect against
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Sat Oct 1 11:21:04 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20161001151249.GA36333@mis10.towardex.com>
From: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 18:17:42 +0300
To: James Jun <james.jun@towardex.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 1 October 2016 at 18:12, James Jun <james.jun@towardex.com> wrote:
> We also want support contracts from our vendors. EOL boxes get removed from support availability within few years of the announcement.
Support, particularly software maintenance is indeed the key deadline,
after that you're on your own. For EX this would be 2019 or 2021
depending on model, if that fits to your amortisation times, then it's
fine. You may get more out of it, but you can't build business case on
it.
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