[5516] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexis Rosen)
Mon Oct 21 18:37:42 1996
From: Alexis Rosen <alexis@panix.com>
To: alex@relcom.eu.net
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:22:55 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, paul@vix.com
In-Reply-To: <AEtYrQo4WA@virgin.relcom.EU.net> from "alex@relcom.eu.net" at Oct 21, 96 03:04:23 pm
alex@relcom.eu.net writes:
> and WHY have I to pay 3,500$ for the 32Mb ram if this RAM costs
> 600$ on the free market???).
Dunno for sure about the 4xxx, but the 7xxx use standard SIMMs, and Cisco
has even qualified some manufacturers' parts. Oddly enough, they have
also *disqualified* some parts that you'd think were exactly the same. I
don't know the details there. The sales types obviously don't like to
talk about it, but you really *can* get $12k of 7500 memory for $800. And
they'll even agree that it works, if you talk to the right cisco folks.
/a
