[43455] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Changed Cisco Memory Policy??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Timmins)
Fri Oct 12 07:28:27 2001
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 07:27:45 -0400
To: <bwalters@inet-direct.com>
From: Paul Timmins <paul@timmins.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Less than a week ago Cisco TAC recommended DRAM from the Approved Vendor
List to me. I hope this is not true.
-Paul
At 06:16 AM 10/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Has anybody else received one of
>these emails? I don't have an issue
>related to this, but I am concerned that
>this will drive up the costs of maintaining
>and improving my infrastructure.
>
>-bradly
>
> > Going forward, Cisco no longer recommends
> > the use in our networking products of memory
> > products sold by third parties. Cisco has therefore
> > discontinued the "Approved Vendor List" we have
> > maintained in the past. In the event your company
> > contacts Cisco with a support issue, and Cisco
> > determines that the support issue you have reported
> > is one that arises from your company's use of a third
> > party memory product, Cisco may, in its discretion,
> > refuse to provide technical assistance to help
> > resolve the issue you have identified, whether
> > such assistance would be provided under a product
> > warranty or under a support plan such as SmartNet.