[194511] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Need recommendation on an affordable internet edge router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (c b)
Thu May 4 18:26:12 2017
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From: c b <bz_siege_01@hotmail.com>
To: Dragan Jovicic <draganj84@gmail.com>, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 22:26:08 +0000
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Can someone toss in a brief testimonial for huawei? In the US, I never hear=
that name in enterprise space, only in carriers. No idea what day-to-day o=
ps or support is like with that vendor. All the others I am quite familiar =
with to one degree or another.
________________________________
From: Dragan Jovicic <draganj84@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2017 3:20 PM
To: Saku Ytti
Cc: c b; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Need recommendation on an affordable internet edge router
Hi,
But you probably should review at least:
- Juniper MX204, MX480
- Cisco ASR9k
- Huawei NE20, NE40
- Alcatel 7750SR
Having all of these somewhere in our network, and my heart being with JNPR =
boxes, I'll say have a look at Huawei offerings.
+Dragan
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi<mailto:saku@ytti.f=
i>> wrote:
On 5 May 2017 at 01:04, c b <bz_siege_01@hotmail.com<mailto:bz_siege_01@hot=
mail.com>> wrote:
Hey,
> The ASR9k is certainly up to the task and it's one of the few we looked a=
t
> initially, but the pricing is nowhere near commodity even if we got a
> minimal build.
What is commodity? Where are you comparing it to which satisfies your
requirements?
> As far as volume, the initial purchase for this round of budget will be a=
n
> HA pair. If the solution works well, we have potential to replace 12 or s=
o
> throughout FY17, maybe into FY18.
Yeah sales droids likely won't be interested in 2 at all. But if you
commit on those 12, even if you'll order them separately. I think
that's something sales droid will care about, and you'll have
negotiation leverage as you can keep bouncing between several vendors
seeing who gets your business.
You should really expect at least 70% discount on 12 units, 80% would
be good. Under 70% would be walk out the room.
--
++ytti
