[5495] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More hardware design (was Re: GigaRouter)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Mon Oct 21 18:34:42 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: danny@intercom.com (Dan)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:04:15 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: freedman@netaxs.com, alexis@panix.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9610211001.B5465-0100000@intercom.com> from "Dan" at Oct 21, 96 10:56:46 am
> They're pretty costly, but they run cool, take up wee space and use only
> 65 watts for the CS500 standard version. We've standardized on them for
> our colo recommendation. They charge about $2700 for a case, power supply,
> passive backplane, floppy drive and P120 CPU card that comes with video
> and all the basic ports. We always source the hard drive and memory
> separately due to their exorbitant rates. I never priced one out without
> the CPU though I was thinking I'd ask about that next time I call. They're
> CPU prices are the most outrageous part, and I keep reminding them that
> they're out of line with the industry by a mile. The price differential
> between the P120 and the P166 for example is $900! You can get a P200 Pro
> for less than that.
>
> ...chop
>
> Dan
If you have any luck getting CPU-less pricing from them, please tell me
or nanog@. These are VERY nice colo boxes.
Avi
